Together with Wen, they are called "arts and sciences", because their poems and essays are similar to those of the same period, and all three of them rank sixteenth in the family, so they are also called "thirty-six styles".
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 also has high literary value.
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 (represented by Jinse) are obscure and inseparable, and there is a saying that "poets always love Quincy and hate that no one writes about Jian Zheng".
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There are about 600 poems handed down by Li Shangyin, among which the themes of current politics are directly touched, accounting for a considerable proportion. Li Shangyin's epic has made great achievements.
They are by no means sick moans of "thinking about the past", and they are also different from those poems written by predecessors that send feelings to the past. They take history as a mirror, Chen's politics as a mirror, and the criticism of the times as a supplement, making history-chanting a special form of political poetry. Untitled poetry is Li Shangyin's unique creation.
Most of them take the lovesickness of men and women as the theme, with faint artistic conception, full of twists and turns of feelings, beautiful words, pleasant tone, which can be dense and dense, and makes people sad to read. Due to his childhood environment and education, Li Shangyin's world outlook basically belongs to the Confucian system, and he has a positive attitude towards life and is eager to make a difference.
At the same time, he can think independently, and he has long dismissed the preaching that "learning Tao must seek the ancients and learning literature must learn", and even put forward such a bold idea that "Confucius is nothing more than virtue, benevolence and righteousness".
In poetry creation, he was initially fascinated by Li's lofty style and the poetic style of the Southern Dynasties, and wrote many poems praising love, such as Yantai, Heyang and Hanoi. After his repeated humiliation and destruction showed him the rugged road of life, his poems began to show resentment and some criticism to society.
In the end, the change of manna opened his eyes with bloody reality and made him take a big step forward in thought and creation. At this time, his poems such as "Two Feelings" and "Re-feeling" have been quite profound and powerful in criticizing decadent politics.
References:
Li Shangyin Baidu Encyclopedia