Li He, named Changji, is a native of Guxiang County, Fuchang County, Henan Province, and his ancestral home is Longxi County. He is "the pioneer of Changji style poetry". A romantic poet in the mid-Tang Dynasty, later called Li Changgu. Li He was born in the room of Zheng (), the imperial clan of the Tang Dynasty, and was named. Bad career, keen on poetry creation. The unique language creates a sad atmosphere, which is one of the most successful factors in Li He's poetry, and also the key to the uniqueness of Changji Style in the flowery poetry circle.
Li He is the representative of the poetic style transition from the middle Tang Dynasty to the late Tang Dynasty, and he is also known as the Three Li in Tang Dynasty with Li Bai and Li Shangyin. Most of his poems are lamenting the untimely birth, pouring out his inner anguish and expressing his pursuit of ideals and ambitions; It reflects the situation that the vassal region was divided, the eunuchs were authoritarian and brutally exploited the people.
The Artistic Style of Li He's Poems
Li He's poetic style is characterized by ethereal and even grotesque, and his content is mainly to express the grief and indignation of talented people. Describe the imaginary world of ghosts and gods; Describe the sufferings of the people; Expose the evils of the times, criticize the debauchery of rulers, and praise the bravery of frontier fortress soldiers. Its artistic characteristics are: fantastic imagination, fantastic rhetoric, colorful changes and deliberate innovation.
Li He took poetry as his painstaking work and career, and his mother said that he was "painstaking". He deliberately pursues the beauty of poetic language. Li He's poems are characterized by jumping images and unconventional structures. Clever rhetoric and peculiar poetic language. However, it also has some shortcomings, such as the pursuit of strangeness and illusion, which is often obscure and dangerous, lacking a complete image and coherent emotional context, which is difficult to solve.