Fan Chengda has been an official in various places for many years and knows the local customs like the back of his hand. The life reflected in his poems is relatively broad. For example, he wrote poems about people's sufferings, inherited the tradition of Du Fu's harmony with Yuan, Bai, Zhang and Wang in the Tang Dynasty, and his writing style was novel, vivid and unique, such as "My eldest daughter broke up with me in the mouth of an old farmer last year". This year, the second daughter has been engaged in the media, and driving again will change her mind. There is a third woman in the room, and she is not afraid to rush the rent for next year! "The tone is cold, but the intensity of criticizing reality is no less than the loud cry in Bai Juyi's poems.
Among Fan Chengda's poems, Jin Jixing's poems and pastoral poems are the most valuable.
The seventy-two quatrains he wrote on his way to Jin incorporated his experiences and feelings in the occupied areas into his poems. The main content is to describe the broken mountains and rivers in the occupied areas, and the people in the Central Plains are ravaged and look forward to recovery. By hanging the remains of ancient patriots, they express their determination to die for their country. For example, Qingyuan Store, Zhouqiao and Shuangmiao reflect the painful life and national feelings of the people in the north. Most of the poems written by poets in the Southern Song Dynasty describe the Central Plains out of imagination, but Fan Chengda personally traveled to the Central Plains, so his feelings were particularly profound and his descriptions were particularly vivid, which made him unique among patriotic poems at that time.
During the ten years when Fan Chengda retired from Shihu, he wrote many pastoral poems, among which Miscellanies of Four Seasons Pastoral was the most famous. This group of poems ***60 seven-character quatrains, with 12 poems as a group, is divided into rural life of wing chun day, late spring day, summer day, autumn day and winter day. In the history of ancient poetry, most of the pastoral poems are actually poems of literati expressing their seclusion. For example, the pastoral scenery in the poems of Wang Wei and Meng Haoran all appeared as the externalization of the poet's quiet mood. Except for a few Tao poems, farming, the most important content of rural life in ancient pastoral poems, was neglected, and the occasional woodcutter and farmer were often endowed with the character of hermit. Poets in the Tang Dynasty, such as Yuan Zhen and Zhang Ji, often wrote the peasants' production, life and sufferings into Yuefu poems such as Peasant Ci and Tianjia Ci. There is no description of pastoral scenery in these poems, and they are not used to being idyllic. Fan Chengda creatively combined the above two traditions and comprehensively and truly described all kinds of details of rural life. Fan Chengda successfully transformed the traditional theme, making pastoral poetry a veritable poem reflecting rural life. Qian Zhongshu called it "the epitome of China's ancient pastoral poetry" in Notes on Selected Poems of Song Dynasty. This kind of poem had a great influence in the late Southern Song Dynasty.
He also wrote some small poems reflecting people's miserable life, such as Feeling from Sitting at Night, Singing by River City Singers, and Those who smell fish and vegetables outside the wall in the snow are very bitter and have three unique skills. Fan Chengda's poetic language is natural and fresh, and his style is mild and euphemistic. Only a few works are sharp in style. The artistic achievement of Fan Chengda's poetry is very high, but the poetic style is not clear enough.
His prose was also famous at that time. His poems are full of affection. His early works are close to Qin Guan, and his later works are close to Su Shi.
Fan Chengda's works had a significant influence in the late Southern Song Dynasty, especially in the early Qing Dynasty. At that time, there was a saying that "Jiannan is the home south and Shihu is the lake" ("Jiannan" refers to Lu You's "Jiannan Poetry Draft").
He also wrote some works about making friends, traveling, mourning for the old and sad, and even talking about Buddhist scriptures and meditation. Yang Wanli's Preface to the Poems of Shihu Jushi said: "(Fan Chengda's poems) are big and short; Without brewing, it will shrink without brewing. Fresh and charming, there is Bao Xie in the election; Run away vigorously and chase Taibai. Chen chen, who seeks his words, can't win the world in one song. " Fan Chengda's good books. His calligraphy is fresh and handsome, elegant and handsome, but unfortunately it is covered by the title of the poem, and the title is not obvious. Tao's Book and History Society of the Ming Dynasty said that Fan Chengda's "Ci listening and Mi Fei, though full of rhyme, are impressive". Fan Chengda's calligraphy was influenced by his mother, Mrs Cai, who was the granddaughter of Cai Xiang, one of the four great calligraphers in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Mo Bao handed down from Fan Chengda was mostly written in letters and bamboo slips. He was drinking and writing poems with Lu You in Chengdu, and the ink on the paper was not dry. Wan Shi-nu read it, and Yuefu gave him string songs and inscribed plain screen fans. Unfortunately, these inks have not been handed down. Fan's handwriting is seen today, with his 54-year-old "Mingzhou Zen Master Poetry Monument" as the first. This monument has long been lost, but Song Tuoben is hidden in Dongfu Temple. Fan Chengda's existing handwriting also includes He Zi Memorial Zagreb, Chuihai Zagreb, Sulisha Fish Zagreb and so on. His running script "Pastoral Miscellaneous Volume" is also often appreciated by people. In the Ming Dynasty, Wang Shizhen said in Yizhou Mountain Man Draft: Fan Chengda retired from Shihu to write poems. Regardless of bamboo branches, partridges and family characters, the story of farmers in Wuzhong has been finished! Calligraphy goes in and out of Meishan (Su Shi) and Zhang Yu (Huang Tingjian), with Mi Dian (Mi Fei) in the middle. They are mature and beautiful, and their business is bleak. "Dong Shi said in History of Han and Song Dynasties:" (Fan Chengda) is called the book of energy in modern times. " "The word lives in the valley and the rice is old, but the rhyme is insufficient and the strength is considerable. "