Compared with poetry, the status of words is far inferior. Before the Song Dynasty, many people thought that words were written only after poetry was written. Although Ci later developed for a hundred years in the Song Dynasty, as well as the development of Li Houzhu, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi and others, the scope of Song Ci has been very large. In the period of Li Qingzhao, Li Qingzhao even proposed it? Isn't it just a sentence? This is the difference between poetry and words.
Li Qingzhao holds that most of the poems in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms are broken by rites and music, which seems beautiful, but it is meaningless. Later, Li Qingzhao criticized Liu Yong, a deliberately lyricist. Li Qingzhao thinks that most of Liu Yong's poems are vulgar. Although Liu Yong has made great artistic achievements, his words are still obscene emotionally and cannot be called good words. Later, Zhang Xian, Song Qi and others thought that their words were inferior even if there were occasional quips.
You should know that these people that Li Qingzhao loves are all good words and sentences in Su Shi's eyes. However, in Li Qingzhao's eyes, it is worthless. Even the words of Su Shi, Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan were degraded by Li Qingzhao, which was embarrassing. Li Qingzhao believes that although these people's words seem to be the best in poetry, as writers, they should not use these unadorned sentences to write words. They write poems in a poetic way, which is completely blind. However, the words written by Wang Anshi and Ceng Gong in the other shore are just a kind of enjoyment in Li Qingzhao's eyes.