The origin of fairy poems can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. There are two different tendencies in the content of poems about immortals, one is pure writing for immortals. The other is cynicism.
Guo Pu's poems about immortals have both the above contents. One is Naoto Kan? ? Buddhist chanting is not an immortal's interest. Although it has the name of wandering immortals, it is actually to vent its dissatisfaction with the real society through the ambition of this world. Only Guo Pu has 14 poems about immortals, and he is the originator of China's poetic style about immortals.
The other kind of content is to inherit the traditional theme of seeking immortality, with the theme of dancing high and dancing light, and taking food and herbs as the main purpose. Guo Pu's poems about immortals are really emotional, aren't they? ? Wing Huai is quite different from Yi Tai's poetry style in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In addition, Guo's poems are full of emotion, vivid description and rich colors, which are quite different from the metaphysical poetry style of Pingdian's moral theory.
Poetry about immortals is a form of Taoist poetry. Original meaning, this refers to a poem praising the feelings of wandering immortals and wanderers. Its genre is mostly five words, with ten, twelve or sixteen sentences. As for the types of immortals' poems, predecessors have made various divisions: either from the author's ideological tendency, immortals' poems are based on the rich and the poor and are variants of immortals' poems; Or from the form of expression, the author swims with immortals as the ancient body, the author is not included, and only immortals swim with themselves as the close body. Poems about immortals often show strong Taoist thoughts beyond the limitations of secular society; In art, you xian's poems are imaginative and good at using various rhetorical devices such as exaggeration, personification and symbol. The use of Taoist immortal allusions makes the poems about immortals more romantic. There are two different tendencies in the content of poems about immortals, one is pure writing for immortals. The other is cynicism.