What is the meaning of "feeling is sorrow and joy, and the origin is doomed", and where did it appear in ancient times?

It refers to feeling sad or happy in real life, and it is a feeling that comes from specific events.

Ban Gu wrote in "History of Han, Art and Literature": "Since filial piety, Yuefu has adopted ballads, so there is a generation of Zhao and Qin Chufeng who are both happy because of sadness."

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up Yuefu to collect folk songs from all over the country, so there was the folk songs of Zhao's generation, the elegant demeanor of Qin Chu, which was produced because they had some feelings about specific things in real life and expressed their personal feelings about life.

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The role of Yuefu in the Han Dynasty was to organize literati to compose songs and rehearse songs and dances for the needs of the emperor and relevant departments. At that time, it was mainly composed of poems written by literati with music scores. Organize people to collect folk songs everywhere. These folk songs mainly reflect the life, thoughts and feelings of people everywhere, which is the biggest feature that distinguishes them from later generations.

It is said here that the purpose of poetry collection is to examine people's feelings and, of course, to entertain the court. This objectively plays a role in preserving folk songs, so that they can be recorded, preserved and passed on to future generations.

The collection of folk songs in the Han Dynasty recorded in Yiwenzhi, *** 138, is a folk song of the Western Han Dynasty, excluding the folk songs of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The collection covers the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins, which is much wider than the collection of poems in the Zhou Dynasty.

Yuefu Poetry, edited by Guo Maoqian in Song Dynasty, is the most complete collection of Yuefu poems in China, with a total volume of 100, which brings together Yuefu songs from Tang and Five Dynasties and ballads from pre-Qin to the end of Tang Dynasty, and divides Yuefu poems into 12 categories. The folk songs of Han Yuefu mainly include "advocacy songs", "harmony songs" and "miscellaneous songs".