Apart from being a gourmet, Yuan Mei has many identities, such as poet, essayist and literary critic.
first, the identity of Yuan Mei's poet.
Yuan Mei advocates other poems? Spiritual theory? That is to say, the content of a poem should reflect the poet's personality, the author's own life experience and express the author's true feelings. Poems written by Yuan Mei include "Walking on the Iron City Barrier with Xia in the Night Stay Temple, Recognizing the Sight of Heaven" and "Continued Poems".
Yuan Mei's poems, such as Collected Works of Xiao Cangshan, also have many types of themes, such as poems about history, landscape poems and mourning poems.
Moreover, Yuan Mei's poems are also good at using various methods. His artistic style is plain and sincere, and his poetry creation theory is very rich.
second, the identity of Yuan Mei's essayist.
Yuan Mei's masterpiece of prose is "A Tribute to Sister", which is sad and sincere, and can be compared with the article "A Tribute to Twelve Lang" written by Han Yu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
Yuan Mei's prose involves such contents as inscriptions, epitaphs and preface, including various ways of expression, such as describing people's scenery and expressing feelings. The prose is rich in material.
third, the identity of Yuan Mei literary critics.
Yuan Mei's Poems with the Garden is a masterpiece of critical style, which has a far-reaching role in history. Yuan Mei's theory of spiritual nature is the poetic proposition in Suiyuan Poetry Talk. Yuan Mei advocated his theory of soul by giving examples and direct comments in Poems with Garden.
Yuan Mei inherited all the literary criticism styles of the ancients, and added his own innovation. His innovation is also very in-depth, which can be said to be the first person in the history of criticism in China literature.
Cheng Jinfang, a scholar and poet in Qing Dynasty, once made such an evaluation of Yuan Mei. He said that Yuan Mei's ancient prose was the first, parallel prose was the second, and poetry was the third. He spoke highly of Yuan Mei's creation of ancient prose.
Yuan Mei was also a man of great learning in ancient times. What do you think of Yuan Mei? You are welcome to leave a message below to express your views.