Xiao Yan's literary talent is also outstanding in poetry and fu. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Qi Dynasty, poetry creation was flourishing, and many scholars gathered around Wang Xiao in Jingling to show their poetry creation talents. Among these scholars, Xie, Ren, Fan Li and others were called the Eight Friends of Jingling at that time. Xiao Yan is also one of the Eight Friends of Jingling. Many of his poems were written during this period. After Liang Jian proclaimed himself emperor, he never lost his elements. He often recruits talented people and takes poetry as his pleasure. His literary creation promoted the prosperity of literary atmosphere in Liang Dynasty.
There are more than 80 poems written by ZSZSZSZ, which can be roughly divided into four categories according to their contents and themes: love poems, Zen poems, banquet poems and object-chanting poems. Xiao Yan's love poems are concentrated in the new Yuefu poems, also known as quasi-Yuefu poems, accounting for almost half of all his poems. Yuefu was the official department in charge of music in ancient times. According to scholars' research, there was a Yueguan in the Zhou Dynasty at the latest, named Dasile, and Yuefu was named Yueguan in Qin Dynasty. Huidi had the post of Yuefu Order in Han Dynasty. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the nature and scale of Yuefu were quite different from before. At that time, Yuefu not only made music movements and trained musicians, but also widely collected folk songs and sang them with music. All the songs produced and collected by Yuefu institutions and poems written by scholars with Yuefu as their theme are called Yuefu poems or Yuefu in later generations. Among them, folk songs are the most vivid part of Yuefu poems.
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Yuefu stopped collecting folk songs, and Yuefu poems at that time also showed an increasingly elegant tendency. In the Southern Dynasties, the new folk songs with different styles in the south of the Yangtze River once again attracted the attention of the upper class. Through the adoption and singing of Yuefu institutions, it has had a great influence on literati's poetry creation. Because the theme, content and exquisite style of Jiangnan folk songs adapted to the ruling class's love for melody and sound at that time, they were widely simulated.
When Xiao Yan was appointed as the secretariat of Yongzhou to live in Xiangyang, he liked local folk songs very much. Many of his poems about Yuefu, such as Thinking of Trees and Going to Gao Tai, were written at this time. Even after he proclaimed himself emperor, Xiao Yan's interest in Yuefu poetry remained unchanged. During his eleven years in Tian Jian prison, he personally changed to western music, and composed fourteen songs "Musical Rhymes in the South of the Yangtze River" and seven songs "Nongnan in the South of the Yangtze River", which shows the extent of his addiction.
Like Yuefu folk songs, Yuefu in Xiao Yan is also a love song, mainly written for women. Most of his poems describe women's yearning for love, feelings of parting from lovesickness, lingering feelings, aesthetic style, plain language and strong flavor of Jiangnan folk songs. A year goes by, and Wan Li people don't return. Your ambition is innate, but my motivation is helpless. ; Grass trees are not fragrant, and flowers and leaves are colorful. Send a message to an old lover, knowing that you are thinking about each other. Wait a minute. Mr Zheng Zhenduo thinks that Xiao Yan's new Yuefu poems are the most charming and lovely. There is some truth in this statement.
What deserves special attention is Xiao Yan's seven-character poem. ZSZSZSZ has more than ten seven-character poems, such as Song of the River and Song of the Shrike Flying East in the South of the Yangtze River. One of the most famous shrike songs is "Flying East: Flying West Shrike and Flying Swallow", and Huang Gu meets Weaver Girl. Whose daughter lives across the hall and has a bright face. South window north _ hanging bright light, curtain incense. This year, the woman will be fifteen or sixteen years old, slim, beautiful, white and beautiful. But three springs have passed, and the flowers withered in the end. Although my daughter is lovely, she is not from her husband's family, so beautiful, who loves and sympathizes with her? The creation of seven-character poems began with Wei Wendi Cao Pi. His Ge Yanxing is the oldest and most complete seven-character poem of a scholar. Since then, Bao Zhao, Tang Huilin, Shi and others in the Song and Qi Dynasties have occasionally published such works, but the impact is not great. It was not until Xiao Yan that the seven-character poem was further developed. Although Cao Pi's Song of Yan is a pioneering work, the whole poem rhymes sentence by sentence, which is monotonous and lacks the interest of euphemistic chanting. Liang Wudi's seven-character poems are original and have a staggered sound and rhyme. Since then, imitators have appeared everywhere. His sons Xiao Gang and Xiao Yi, ministers Shen Yue and Wu Jun all wrote seven-character poems. By the time of Chen, the sentence pattern and structure of seven-character poems were more perfect and the rhythm was more harmonious. Later, in the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai, Du Fu, Gao Shi and others creatively used this poetic style and wrote many magnificent poems, especially the seven-character poems. The pioneering work of ZSZSZSZ and others is undeniable.
Xiao Yan's Zen poems are second only to his Yuefu poems. He believed in Buddhism in his early years and became a Buddhist in his later years. His Zen poems are self-portraits of his belief in Buddhism. Like the proverbs of religious philosophy, these poems are very boring and have no art at all.
Xiao Yan's third kind of poems is the poem of thanking the banquet, which is more complicated than the first two kinds. There are works that show religious philosophy, promote Buddhist thought and persuade ministers to believe in Buddhism, such as "Love Temple in Zhongshan" and "Songs of the River Bring New Ideas". Works with travel notes and scenery descriptions, such as Pan-Tianchi Poetry in Early Summer, Going to the North Drum Tower, and Park Shu Tang in Tianan Temple. There are farewell poems, such as "Ren Dian Zong Ji Shi Answer Wang Zhongshu Poems". There are many excellent poems of this kind, such as "Ships and Passengers", where seaweed and apples go hand in hand. Bichi Honglian, white sand and green ripples; Sina tide blows old stones, and residual flowers fall on old branches; Soft leaves are easy to come out, but dense grass roads are difficult to cover. Wandering in Zhu Ming Festival, flooded Tianyuan Pool. This poem has vivid scenery and colorful colors, which makes it very attractive to read. Another example: Lan Hua didn't talk, but he was worried. He didn't talk, and his feelings were connected. Writing about the affectionate and sincere attachment of friends when they leave is also a masterpiece in farewell poems.
Xiao Yan's fourth kind of poems are about objects, such as dancing, candles and pens. Although this kind of poetry is struggling to catch up with the new, its content is shallow and few people can praise it.
His gift to Yimin is eleven: If the ridge grows, there is no disloyalty. Birds sing in the forest. Birds have different voices. You Jiang fish, for example, have ups and downs. Rocky Mountain is high and deep. Behavior is easy to see, but the reason is hard to find. This poem explains the nature and laws of everything in the world, and it is really hard to be found by some incredible things, such as the falsehood of trees, the strange sounds of birds, the ups and downs of fish, and the depth of mountains.
Scholars of later generations generally don't think highly of Liang's poems, and most think that he is cynical and romantic, engages in flowers and plants, and is less romantic and more affectionate. The poets in Qi and Liang Dynasties lack the lofty ideal of saving the world and a serious sense of social responsibility, and there are few works that reflect social reality and express their heartfelt feelings. At that time, the literary world was full of poems describing landscapes, chanting things and eroticism. Xiao Yan's poetry embodies the characteristics of Qi Liang's poetry without exception in subject matter, content and style. This is of course related to the long and rich aristocratic living environment before he ascended the throne. Although he was the king of founding a country and starting a business, he had been in a high position before he ascended the throne, pampering himself and not being hit too much; It only took more than a year to destroy Qi Liangjian, and it was very smooth. Therefore, it is not surprising that in Xiao Yan's poems, there are more sentimental words, more fairy tales and ghosts, less wind and cloud, and less positive words.
Because of Xiao Yanya's good poems, ministers have followed suit, and even a brave warrior can occasionally recite a few good poems. After six years in prison, Liang defeated Cao and Wei Jun in Xuzhou. After the team returned to North Korea, a banquet was held in the hall to celebrate the victory. During the dinner, the monarch and his subjects recited poems in succession. In view of Cao's incompetence in poetry and prose, he was afraid that he would be embarrassed if he could not give rhyme, so the minister in charge of arranging rhyme shot him if he didn't give him rhyme. Cao was deeply wronged and insisted on using rhyming poems. Xiao Yan had long known Cao's unwilling personality, so he comforted him and said, The general is an outstanding talent, so why should he care about writing poems? By this time, Cao had some drunkenness, so he asked for it again and again. Xiao Yan didn't want to spoil his fun, so he ordered Shen Yue to give him poems. At this time, the rhyme has been almost divided, leaving only two words: competition and illness. Under this restriction, it is difficult for poetry to rhyme. But Cao Jingzong only thought for a moment, and wrote a poem: My daughter is sad, so come back and have a competition. How can a traveler be like Huo Qubing? The poem is written naturally and smoothly, which is very suitable for the reality of triumph in front of us. As soon as this poem came out, the language was shocked, and the literati sighed, even ZSZSZSZ lamented that the historian was recorded in the national history.
Under the influence and advocacy of Xiao Yan, the development of cultural undertakings in the Liang Dynasty reached the most prosperous stage since the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Li yanshou, the author of Southern History, commented: Since Jiangzuo, it has a history of more than 200 years, and the cultural relics are flourishing, which is unique in this area. This sentence can quite reflect the reality at that time.
Music Xiao Yan is also very good at music. He wrote many new songs. According to Sui Shu's music records, Xiao Yan is good at clock rhythm and knows the past in detail. He made his own ceremonies and music. For example, it is advocated that Song and Qi used Chinese songs, and the court used sixteen songs. Xiao Yan went to four songs and left twelve, also in the four seasons. Create more songs, and describe the boundless merits.
Xiao Yan wrote many songs in praise of Buddhism, such as Doing Good, Having Fun, Having Fun, Having Fun, Being Immortal by Enlightenment, King of God, Dragon King, Exorcising Evil, Going to official website, Shopping Rabbit in love the water, Broken Bitter Bricks and so on.
Xiao Yan attaches great importance to rites and music. He is good at clock rhythm and created four quasi-tones, named Tong. Pass three strings to push the moon at a time. He also made twelve flutes, corresponding to twelve laws. Each piece is equipped with chimes and chimes, which enriches the expressive force of China traditional instrumental music.
Painting Xiao Yan likes painting very much, especially flowers, birds and animals. Zhang Sengyou, a famous painter, is good at portraying characters and is highly appreciated by Xiao Yan. At that time, Xiao Yan's philosophers were all in other places and often missed them, so he ordered Zhang Sengyou to go to various counties to paint portraits of the philosophers and hang them in the bedroom. When Xiao Yan saw this photo, he saw his son, and his thoughts diminished. Xiao Yan believes in Buddhism. During his reign, he built many Buddhist temples and pagodas and ordered Zhang Sengyou to paint.
Calligraphy Xiao Yan also had profound attainments in calligraphy, ranking among the emperors who were good at calligraphy in ancient times. Even if we abandon the imperial status and judge his calligraphy by the standard of a calligrapher, it has its own considerable points. At that time, Xiao Yan often discussed the topic of calligraphy with Tao Hongjing, and Tao Hongjing was good at cursive writing, learning from Zhong You and Wang Xizhi. The dialogue between them was compiled into "Discussion with Liang Wudi", which was handed down to later generations and became one of the classic works in the history of calligraphy. At the same time, Xiao Yan was also the first emperor in history to highly praise Wang Xizhi's calligraphy achievements. Before that, Wang Xizhi's reputation was often covered by his son Wang Xianzhi. Because of his admiration, the first wave of learning Wang Shu rose in the Liang Dynasty. At the same time, Zhong You's Twelve Meanings of Calligraphy, Caoshu, Tao's Seclusion and Comments on Ancient and Modern Calligraphers were left behind. The Four Books are all masterpieces of calligraphy theory's ancient books.