The Stylistic Features of Ruan Ji's Eighty-two Poems of Chanting Memories

There are 82 poems in Yong Huai, which is the general theme of Ruan Ji's poems in his life. Because of living in the political darkness of the late Wei Dynasty and the early Jin Dynasty, most of Ruan Ji's poems are obscure and tortuous. Yan Yanzhi in the Liu and Song Dynasties said: "Ruan Ji often worried about disasters in the Jin Dynasty, so he made this chant." Shan Li also said: "(Ruan Ji) is determined to ridicule, but his writings are mostly evasive, and it is difficult to guess after a hundred generations." ("Notes on Selected Works and Poems")