The poet Li Bai wrote many works that reflected women's lives, and "Changgan Xing" is one of the outstanding poems.
Changqian is a place name in present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu. An old Yuefu title includes "Changgan Qu". Volume 72 of Guo Maoqian's "Yuefu Poetry Collection" contains an ancient poem with five words and four sentences, describing a scene in which a girl was riding a boat to collect water chestnuts and encountered a tide on the way. Cui Hao, who was at the same time as Li Bai, wrote "Changgan Qu", and Cui Guofu wrote "Xiao Changgan Qu", both of which were written in the small Yuefu style of 50 to 40 years of age. They depict the life scenes of young men and women in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The contents of these poems are relatively simple. Li Bai's "Changganxing" has become longer and richer in content. It narrates her love life in the voice of a businesswoman living in Changganli, and expresses her deep longing for her distant husband. It creates an image of a young woman with rich and profound emotions and has moving artistic power.
This poem unfolds vivid and vivid pictures in front of readers through vivid and specific descriptions of various life stages of business women. The poet makes a typical summary through the use of images. The first six sentences are like a group of folk pictures of children playing. The following eight lines of "Fourteen are a gentleman's wife" vividly and delicately describe the young bride's newlywed life after her marriage through psychological description. In the following verses, the young woman's parting melancholy is described with thick pen and ink, and the poem reaches a distinct turning point. The following eight sentences of "Late Departure in Front of the Door", through changes in solar terms and descriptions of different scenery, vividly depict the image of a young woman missing her husband who is traveling far away on the paper. The last two sentences reveal Li Bai's unique romanticism. Many detailed descriptions in this poem are very prominent and full of artistic effect. For example, the following lines of "I first covered my forehead with hair" describe the innocent game actions of boys and girls, which are lively and cute. "Childhood sweethearts" became an idiom that is still used today. Another example is "Lower your head to the dark wall, never once in a thousand times", which describes a woman's shyness when she first gets married, which is very delicate and realistic. The poet paid attention to the changes in the woman's psychological state at different stages, but did not make a simplistic treatment. Another example is "Late in front of the door, green moss all over", "Butterflies are yellow in August, two are flying on the grass in the West Garden", through specific descriptions of scenery, they show the profound emotional activities in the inner world of the missing woman, which are profound and moving.