What's Li Shangyin's name?

Li Shangyin is called "the soul of poetry", because Li Shangyin and Du Mu's poems are greatly influenced by Du Fu, so Li Shangyin and Du Mu are also called "Little Du Li" by later generations (Big Du Li refers to Li Bai and Du Fu), and they are also called "Wen Li" by later generations because their poetry styles are similar to those of their contemporaries.

Li Shangyin (about 8 13 ~ 858), a native of western Henan, was born in Hanoi, Huaizhou (now Qinyang City, Henan Province). A famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty, together with Du Mu, was called "Little Du Li".

In the second year of Kaicheng (837), he became a scholar, became a secretary of provincial studies, and moved to hongnong county, becoming the staff of Wang Maoyuan (father-in-law), the messenger of Jingyuan era. He was involved in the political whirlpool of "the dispute between Niu and Li", was excluded and had a rough life. In his later years, he died in Zhengzhou.

Summary of achievements

There are about 600 poems handed down by Li Shangyin, among which the themes of current politics are directly touched, accounting for a considerable proportion. Li Shangyin's epic has made great achievements. They are by no means sick moans of "thinking about the past", and they are also different from those poems written by predecessors that send feelings to the past. They take history as a mirror, Chen's politics as a mirror, and the criticism of the times as a supplement, making history-chanting a special form of political poetry. Untitled poetry is Li Shangyin's unique creation.