Yuefu

Yuefu (traditional Chinese: 樂府; simplified Chinese: 乐府; pinyin: yuèfǔ) are Chinese poems composed in a folk song style. The term originally literally meant "Music Bureau", a reference to the imperial Chinese governmental organization(s) originally charged with collecting or writing the lyrics, later the term yuefu was applied to later literary imitations or adaptations of the Music Bureau's poems. Note that the use of fu in yuefu is different than the other Chinese term fu, referring to a type of poetry or literature: although homonyms in English, the other fu (traditional Chinese: 賦; simplified Chinese: 赋; pinyin: fù) instead refers to a rhapsodic poetry/prose form of literature.