Characteristics of Fan Chengda’s pastoral poetry Introduction to the characteristics of Fan Chengda’s pastoral poetry

1. Fan Chengda is a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty who is as famous as Yang Wanli. His poetry style is simple, fresh and charming. He often praises the mountains, rivers and countryside and expresses farm life.

2. The author started from the Jiangxi School, and then studied the poets of the middle and late Tang Dynasty. He inherited the spirit of Bai Juyi, Wang Jian, Zhang Ji and other New Yuefu poets, and became his own family. Famous sayings we are familiar with include, "What year is it today? The new moon is full in the new year"; and "It is strange to see that the plum blossoms are not warm, but I know that the willow eyes are still cold."