Liu Yong's ci has a wide range of themes, mainly including the following aspects:
1. Describe the scenery of metropolis, mountains and rivers, and reflect the life of citizens. Such as pouring cups, welcoming the spring, breaking the array and watching the tide of the sea.
2. Describe the journey and express the sadness of wandering in the rivers and lakes. This is the most distinctive and successful part of Liu Yong's ci, such as the crisp sound of rain, the cold sound of cicada, the red river, the early harvest of dusk rain, and the xiaoxiao river in Basheng Ganzhou. In the description of parting from sorrow, he pinned his grief and disappointment after his talent failed to meet poverty and sorrow, and wrote with deep feelings, sadness and sadness, touching.
3. Describe the life, thoughts and lingering feelings of geisha. The number of such words is the largest, such as The Legend of the Immortal. These words are written with sincere feelings and smooth language.
Artistic features of Liu Yong's ci;
1, make good use of Fu's technique, layer by layer, and render at will. Liu Yong's ci is good at description, which can integrate scenery, narration and lyricism, greatly enhancing the expressive force of ci. Such as Lin Yuling.
2. The language is simple and slang is not avoided. Liu Yong doesn't like to use allusions or flowery rhetoric, but he is good at refining vulgar language, so as to achieve "great difficulty is not achieved." For example, "Remembering the Imperial Capital with Thin Pillows and Cool Days" is almost entirely written in spoken language. Liu Yong's words are as simple as words, but they can be vulgar without hurting elegance. There are many beautiful sentences in his poems, which are deeply loved by the public and have the reputation of "where there is a well, you can sing Liu Ci".
Liu Yong's Contribution to Song Ci
Liu Yong was the first poet in the Northern Song Dynasty who changed the style of Ci, and made important contributions to the development of Song Ci:
1, which expands the theme of the word. He led the ci from the small courtyard to the city and the landscape post station. Although the works of female lovesickness in Liu Yong's ci account for a large proportion, there are some new contents after all. For example, Looking at the Sea Tide shows the prosperity of the city and the beauty of the mountains and rivers, showing a broader picture and opening up a new field for the later poets' creation.
2. Developed the style of words. Liu Yong created a large number of slow words by "changing old sounds and creating new ones", which provided a new form for later poets to accommodate more content. Since Liu Yong, it has become a common practice to use long tunes as slow words, which laid the foundation for the prosperity of Song Ci.
3. Improve the expressive ability of words. Liu Ci's description and sketching techniques, as well as the use of vulgar language, showed superb skills and had a far-reaching impact on the creation of later writers.