Su Shi's Evaluation of Liu Zongyuan's Poetry

Su Shi made an in-depth study of Liu Zongyuan's poetry, and made an overall evaluation and detailed analysis of his position and creative style in the history of poetry. He said: "Liu Zongyuan's poems are below Tao Yuanming and above Su Shi", "What is expensive is dry and light, which means that the cream inside is light and beautiful, and it is also deep, wide and thick", "It is beyond Yuzi's reach to seek simplicity and indifferent interest". He also evaluated the specific works, and thought that the poem "Nanzhong Jianti" was "clear and energetic" and "there was joy in sorrow and sorrow in joy, covering ancient and modern times." Praise the poem "Jiang Xue": "Loyalty has its own style, which is almost a godsend and unattainable". He thinks that "Zi Hou's poems are far from spiritual luck" in "Deng Shi Fan looks at Hengjiangkou Beach Island and leans on Xiangling Mountain". In particular, the comment on the poem "Fisherman" has caused controversy for nearly a thousand years and has become a literary story. "An old fisherman spent the night here. Under the western cliff, Xiao Xiang burned bamboo. The sun disappears like a cloud, and the sound of sculls comes from green mountains and green waters. I turned around and saw the waves coming from the sky, and the clouds on the cliff drifted carelessly. " He said: "Poetry is out of curiosity, and the abnormal combination of Taoism is interesting. Poetry is interesting when it is ripe. However, the last two sentences are unnecessary. " Some people who agree, such as Yan Yu, said: "Dongpo deleted the last two sentences and brought Zi Hou back, so he was convinced." ("Cang Hua"). There are also opponents, such as Li Dongyang, who think that Su's evaluation is "like a dwarf watching a football match". Zhang said it well: "The first four sentences are the Lord, the last two sentences are the guest, and the guest and the Lord join hands to form the whole wall." (Liu). Su Shi also takes Liu's poems as a model for learning in his creation. According to Dr. Yang Zaixi's statistics, Su Shi accepted and enlightened Liu's poems in terms of words, rhetoric, sentence patterns, meaning and artistic conception, reaching 29 kinds. For example, Liu Yu's poem "Stay in Spring" was transformed into "Alone in the Palace" and "Birds fly without trace" was transformed into "Flying without trace". Combining Han Yu's poem "Jiang Zuoqing Luodai" and Liu Yu's poem "The seaside mountain is like a sword, cutting my heart everywhere", make a pair: "Is it boring?" Su Shi, known as the "first reader" of Liu's poems, created the atmosphere of imitating Liu's poems on a large scale and made important contributions to the spread and acceptance of Liu Zongyuan.