Li Shangyin (about 8 13-858), born in West Henan (xi), Fan Nansheng, originally from Hanoi, Huaizhou (now Qinyang, Henan), and his grandparents moved to Xingyang (now Xingyang, Zhengzhou, Henan). A famous poet in late Tang Dynasty.
In the second year of Tang Wenzong (837), Li Shangyin became the first scholar, and served as secretary of the provincial school, bookkeeper of the school and commander of Hongnong. Because he was involved in the political whirlpool of "the dispute between Niu and Li", he was excluded and frustrated all his life. In the last years of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (about 858), Li Shangyin died in Zhengzhou and was buried at the foot of Beishan Mountain in Dongyuan Tsinghua. His ancestral home was Yongdian, Huaizhou (now Wangzhuang Town, Qinyang Mountain).
Li Shangyin was one of the few poets who deliberately pursued the beauty of poetry in the late Tang Dynasty and even the whole Tang Dynasty. He is good at poetry writing, and parallel prose has high literary value. He was called "Little Du Li" with Du Mu and "Wen Li" with Wen. His poems are novel in conception and beautiful in style, especially some love poems and untitled poems are touching, beautiful and moving, and are widely read. However, some poems are too obscure to be solved, and there is even a saying that "poets always love Quincy and hate that no one writes about Jian Zheng".
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Li Shangyin's poems are unique in the poetry circle of the late Tang Dynasty, because he is sentimental and devoted to them. He expressed the sadness and persistence of the scholars in the late Tang Dynasty with many works, thus creating a new style and new realm of poetry. His poems are novel in conception and beautiful in style, especially some love poems and untitled poems, which are lingering and memorable. In addition, Li Shangyin used subtle and hazy expression techniques to the extreme, but some poems were too obscure and puzzling to be solved. There was a saying that "poets always loved Quincy, but only hated that no one wrote Jian Zheng".
The highest achievement of Li Shangyin's poetry is modern poetry, especially seven-character poems. He is the second milestone after Du Fu in the development history of the Seven Laws in Tang Dynasty.
He inherited the characteristics of Du Fu's Seven Laws, such as prudence, depression and frustration, and combined the rich colors of Qi Liang's poems with the fantastic symbolism of Li He's poems, forming a unique style of affection, aestheticism and delicacy. For example, "Re-crossing the Notre Dame Temple" meets love, and the symbol of Bixing is integrated into the landscape to convey the feeling of being trapped and frustrated; "Spring Rain" moves the exotic beauty of Li He's ancient poems into the regular poems, with beautiful language, neat antithesis, beautiful melody and beautiful images. However, because he likes to use unorthodox classics in his poems, the overall meaning of his poems is often vague. Secondly, Li Shangyin developed the expression of life lament to a deeper and more subtle aspect, and was good at expressing melancholy and lonely feelings with gorgeous and exquisite art forms. His poems are full of confused and sad experiences. His works are profound and delicate, with profound charm, "near but not floating, far and endless", full of symbolic meaning and hazy beauty. For example, there are always different explanations about Jinse's poems, such as mourning, sustenance, love, listening to songs, self-preface, self-injury, etc., which are subtle and far-reaching and have hazy beauty. Thirdly, in a sense, his poetry is a symbol of his soul and a purely subjective expression of life experience. Li Shangyin's seven poems, such as Love at the Rockfall Pavilion in Cuizhou, Cui Yong, Sending Friends to the North on a Rainy Night and Sunset Tower, express the feelings of life experience more, with delicate feelings and beautiful artistic conception. Poetry is permeated with life experience and the sadness of the times, with a sad and sad artistic conception and sad beauty. In art, they are more delicate, sad and beautiful, and in exquisite and rich rhetoric.
Li Shangyin's poems have a wide range of teachers. His feeling of compassion for others and the method of reposing the beauty of vanilla originated from Qu Yuan, and his poetic style with profound meaning is similar to Ruan Ji's. Du Fu's spirit of worrying about the country and the people, his depressed and frustrated style, Qi Liang's exquisite and gorgeous poems, and Li He's symbolism and style all influenced Li Shangyin. Some of Li Shangyin's long ancient styles are bold and unconstrained, close to Han Yu's. He also has several fresh and beautiful poems with pure lines, which were born out of the folk songs of the Six Dynasties. Li Shangyin is good at melting hundreds of families into one furnace, so he can form his own family.