The background of the white war style

Poetry developed into the hands of Ouyang Xiu and others in the Song Dynasty and began to change. Ouyang Xiu advocates innovation. He was dissatisfied that people's white rabbit poems at that time were all about the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon Palace (Mei, Ouyang Xiu Jian Juan No.6), and he proposed to ban poems, which was quoted by Su Shi in the preface of "Snow in the Juxingtang", which was particularly beautiful in the predicament.

In the sixth year of Yuan You (109 1), Su Dongpo recalled the past events of European public affairs in Yingzhou, and wrote the book "Snow in the Gathering Stars Hall". At the end, there is a sentence "I told you to listen at that time, and you are not allowed to fight in white with your bare hands", which is called "the wind of white war" by later generations.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi and others created this special method of describing objects-forbidden style (also known as white war style). Its method is to write metrical poems according to propositions, and it is forbidden to use words that are usually used to describe the appearance of an object.

When Ouyang Xiu, a writer in Song Dynasty, was appointed as the prefect of Yingzhou, he drank wine with his guests and wrote poems, banning words such as pear, plum, goose, crane, training and wadding.

After Su Shi followed Ouyang Zhonggong as the satrap, he invited the guests to write poems in rain and snow and forbade them to speak. Because the poet regards the physical object as an ingenious work, and wastes it if it is not used, it is regarded as a prohibition, just like being unarmed. Later, the ban on poetry was in vain.