There are two sources for the creation of ancient poetry: one is the realistic tradition from the Book of Songs, which truly reflects real life, is good at reflecting the real situation with realistic methods, and writes about the feelings of reality, with simple language and simple techniques, such as the poetry creation of Du Fu and Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty, which embodies this traditional style; Second, it originated from the romantic tradition of Li Sao, and he was good at writing his inner feelings with rich imagination and exaggeration, with the description of the ideal realm as the main content. For example, Li Bai's poetry creation in the Tang Dynasty more embodies this traditional style.
The main schools of ancient poetry:
Poetry genre is the most typical in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and ci genre is the most mature in the Song Dynasty. The works of poets of the same school are roughly the same in style and have similarities in many aspects.
Realism: Realism is one of the basic creative methods of literature and art. In the history of literature and art, realism and romanticism are two major ideological trends. Realism advocates the objective observation of real life and the true representation of typical characters in typical environments. Realistic literature and art have a long history and great achievements in China. In literature, for example, some works in The Book of Songs, Du Fu's poems, Guan Hanqing's plays and Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions are his representative works.
Romanticism: Romanticism is one of the basic creative methods of literature and art. It is good at expressing the passionate pursuit of ideals and using passionate language, strange imagination, exaggeration and fairy tales to shape images. The source of romantic poetry is Chu Ci, and the representative writers are Qu Yuan, Li Bai, Li He and Gong Zizhen. "Sao" has been called "Sao" since ancient times, which refers to the poetic style and tradition of realism and romanticism in China.
There is an irreconcilable contradiction between romanticism and realism in our inherent mindset. But from Gong Zizhen's poems, we can see that romanticism and realism are not contradictory. Compared with many leisurely poems criticized by predecessors, these two tendencies in his poems can be closely combined and complement each other. ? For reference.