Zhao Xu is a conscious poet, aiming to pursue the cold and thin poetic style of Jia Dao and Yao He. He himself once said, "When you send tea yesterday, you should remember your grievances" ("Visiting the Public") and "If you are kind, you will forget your grievances" ("Sending Weng Juan in the Mountain"). Because Zhao Xu was born in a poor family and devoted his life to bitter songs, many lyric works on the scene are still fresh and charming. This poem was written at the end of the year. The styles of "looking for things in the dark" and "living in poverty" can be seen in the first couplet. Imagine, in such a cold season, how "bitter" it is to knock on ice to make tea from the crevices in the mountains. This also shows the idea of choosing words and making sentences. The second couplet is about what I saw and thought when I was cooking tea. The word "think" and the word "wrong" are quite obvious. Fang Hui commented on the cloud: "The word' think' and the word' mistake' should be considered different." Ji Yun commented on the cloud: "The language is extremely cold and thin, but it has a different taste." ("Lv Kui Sui Dong Juan") is very reasonable. Looking at the whole poem, it is a poem written by a really poor poet. Although the realm is narrow, it also has a unique flavor.
Ji Xu is also a bitter poet who carved chapters and made sentences. He once said: "In the past, people cut off the sound with floating sound, and the words were only clever and clumsy, which concealed the coquettish nature." Modern times are all articles and sweat, how can they be famous! "(see Ye Shi's" Xu Epitaph ") This seems to be the theoretical program of the four spirits' bitter songs. Ji Xu's New Cool is about the new cool in the late summer in the south of the Yangtze River. The first sentence mainly expresses the new coolness through visual images-the water is full of seedlings, the water is clear and the leaves are green, and the coolness comes naturally. The second sentence is a word "wear" and a word "low", which is quite carved. The last two sentences highlight the beautiful artistic conception of the blending of scenes formed by the love of both people and orioles for the new cool.
Zhao Shixiu was promoted to the crown of the Four Spirits, enjoying the highest prestige among them. Zhao Shixiu, like three others, tried to refine sentences and words. He claimed: "Fortunately, there are only forty words in an article, so add one more word. I'm not that good! " Visible is bitter. The Seven Laws are not Zhao Shixiu's specialty, but they are often amazing. The first song "A few days" can be watched. "Loneliness, cold, bitterness, loneliness, cold and illness" are the most commonly used words in Si Ling's poems. It is also common sense that Zhao Shixiu treated himself as a patient in a few days. Although this poem describes the scenery, it is "all scenery words are sentimental words", and the subject image is extremely prominent. The first two sentences complained about the bleak situation, and the last two sentences suddenly opened with a change of pen. The whole poem can be regarded as "wild thin". "Lin Yuanshan" is a rare masterpiece in bitter songs, even if it is deliberately done.