In the early Northern Song Dynasty, the style of Ci was still the style of the former dynasty, but it was brewing new vitality in the old style. Famous poets include Yan Shu, Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Zhang Xian and Liu Yong.
Yan Shu and Ouyang Xiu are greatly influenced by Feng Yansi, a poet in the Southern Tang Dynasty. They are good at expressing amorous feelings, carefree worries, parting feelings or elegant tastes with short chapters, and they are equally famous, so they are called "Yan Ou".
Their works represent the basic tendency of ci style in the early Northern Song Dynasty. In addition, Yan Shu has a young son named Yan Jidao, who is also good at poem writing and has a beautiful style.
Yan Shu had a reputation as a child prodigy when he was a teenager. When he grew up, he lived in the imperial court for a long time, from official to prime minister. Yan Shu has made many achievements and contributions in literature.
He is good at poetry, good at ci, elegant in writing, and good at calligraphy at the same time, among which ci is the most prominent. His "Zhu Yu Ci" contains 14 ci, which greatly exceeds that of ci writers in the early Northern Song Dynasty.
Yan Shu's ci absorbed the "Huajian School" in the Southern Tang Dynasty and Feng Yansi's elegant and elegant ci style, and created the graceful ci style in the Northern Song Dynasty, which was called "the original ancestor of the Northern Song Dynasty's musicians".
The theme of Yan Shu's ci is to miss each other, and the tone of his ci is in the form of poem, which expresses the inner feelings of the characters through the description of natural scenery and seasonal changes, revealing a kind of sadness that life is limited and time passes. His term "Huanxisha, a new song and a glass of wine":
A new song and a glass of wine. Last year, the weather was old, so when will the sun set? There is no choice but to let the flowers fall, as if I had met Yan's return, and the small garden incense trail wandered alone.
Another article, "Huanxisha has always been young and limited":
Always young and limited, it's easy to be fascinated when you leave at leisure, and you can't talk frequently at wine banquets and songs. It's better to pity the people in front of you than to miss the mountains and rivers.
There is a subtle sadness in the words, but there is also a philosophical thought: since the passage of time and the impermanence of life are the same tragedies that human beings can't help, why not face the world life philosophically, or "pity the present", or give the swallow who returns every year a kind of "deja vu" to understand the eternity of the universe cycle.
Yan Shu is good at writing wealth and wealth with elegant pen, and writing love between men and women with fresh pen, which is clear and elegant. He once boasted: "I don't talk about wealth and wealth, but only about its weather ... such as' the pear flower courtyard melts into the moon, the catkin pond is light and windy'."
Yan Jidao, a famous poet, was the seventh son of Yan Shu. He has served as supervisor of Xutian Town in Yingchang Prefecture, judge of Gan Ningjun and judge of Kaifeng Prefecture. His poetic style is full of sadness, clearness and frustration, and his poetic skills are well-rounded, such as "Partridge Day, Colorful Sleeves Holding Jade Bell":
Colorful Sleeves holding Jade Bell diligently, but they were drunk in those years. Dancing from the late evening of the month of the willow shoot, until the roof of the roof falls outside the late night, we heartily dance singing, exhausted tired to the inability to shake the peach fan. Since that parting, I always miss the beautiful meet, how many times to embrace you in the dream. There is a silver photo left tonight, and I am still afraid that meeting is a dream.
The whole word is only fifty words, but it can create two realms, which complement each other, whether it is real or virtual. It has both gorgeous colors and harmonious sounds, and its love words are like a crystal, crystal clear and natural, and it is not fake.
Yan Jidao's ci style is profound and profound, and he is devoted to romance. His father Yan Shu's ci style is beautiful and graceful, with many words. It is deeper and sadder than Yan Shu's ci. Especially in love words, he is better than his father Yan Shu.
Due to the different social status and life experiences, the ideological content of Yan Jidao's ci poems is much deeper than that of Yan Shu's. There are many chapters that sympathize with the fate of geisha and dancers and praise their beautiful hearts.
There are also memories and descriptions of personal affairs. Through the personal experience of yesterday's dream dust, to express the joys and sorrows of the world, sentimental style, touching. In some works, it shows an attitude and character that is unconventional and arrogant.
Yan Jidao's Poems on the Hill is a lyric poem with distinct personality. I work on romance, but I seldom express it freely, and I often write it with a graceful pen. Although "Poem on the Hill" follows the graceful tradition of his father Yan Shu's poems, it creates a new artistic world.
On the whole, Yan Jidao's ci poems are colourful but not vulgar, and both superficial and deep. He has developed the poem of colourful words from the accuracy of language and the depth and two levels of emotion to the extreme.
Ouyang Xiu, born in a poor family since childhood, entered the official career through his own efforts. Ouyang Xiu is knowledgeable and versatile, and he is good at poetry, ci and writing.
Compared with Yan Shu, Ouyang Xiu's ci poems are more profound in emotion and sentimental in style, including many epigrams and famous sayings. His famous sentences in the noun "Butterfly Lovers", such as "How deep is the courtyard" and "Tears ask the flowers for silence, and the red flies over the swing", have been greatly appreciated by future generations.
Some of Ouyang Xiu's poems are very shallow and vulgar, and they completely use the colloquial language of ordinary women to describe the erotic feelings of men and women, but the tone is not sad, but more cheerful, romantic and even dramatic, such as "Drunken Penglai, Seeing Shame and Gathering Cuisine".
Ouyang Xiu took the opportunity of being an official everywhere to wander around and appreciate the natural landscape. In the face of life's suffering and questioning, he was also better at borrowing all kinds of beautiful things from nature to free himself. He used folk songs for reference to create "Picking Mulberry Seeds" about the West Lake, which embodies this feature.
the west lake is good after the crowd, and the wolf is still red, and the flying flocks are flying. The weeping willows are dry and the sun is blowing.
it's only after the tourists have gone away that I feel empty in spring. Hanging down the curtain, Shuangyan returned to the drizzle.
Ouyang Xiu's ci has a great influence on later generations. Feng Xu, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, commented on him in On Ci in Haoan: "Ouyang Wenzhong and Yan Yuanxian both went out of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but they went beyond it if they were deeply impressed. Open your eyes and look forward to it