Sui dynasty was a short-lived dynasty, which lasted less than forty years, but it was also a unified dynasty that quickly became powerful and quickly perished. In literature, the exchange and integration of North and South styles of writing is its most outstanding contribution. The literature of the Sui Dynasty can be divided into two periods and two groups: in the early stage, three poets who entered the Sui Dynasty from the Northern Dynasty-Lu Sidao, Su Yang and Xue Daoheng-were represented; The later period is represented by Historical Records, General Jiang and Sui Yangdi. Poets who entered the Sui Dynasty in the early years of the Northern Dynasty focused on simplicity and vigor, combining the delicate and feminine techniques of the Southern Dynasty. In the later period, the poets who entered the Sui Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty were mainly elegant and delicate, and integrated the broad and bright temperament of the Northern Dynasty. This mutual learning between the northern and southern poets gradually formed a confluence, leaving some poems with their own characteristics.
As a northern poet, Lu Sidao's Joining the Army embodies the characteristics that northerners value "temperament":
The bonfire in the north shines on Ganquan, and Chang 'an flies out of Qilian.
Jade sword in Xiqu is a beautiful family, and white horse and gold make a teenager.
In the Ming Dynasty, Yan Yuetun was on the right, and fish, pears and bamboos appeared on the left at dusk.
Shi Hu held an arrow in the valley, and the Jin people on the mountain once offered sacrifices to heaven.
The end of the world is endless, and the thistle gate is three thousand miles.
Appeared before Maling Huangsha, looking forward to Yun Qi in Longcheng at night.
The strange trees in the court have been climbed, but the people of the Great Wall have not been returned.
The first snow outside Tianshan Mountain, the clouds go straight to Wuyuan.
You can't cross the mountain, who can sit on wheatgrass?
Running water breaks people's intestines, while hard ice hurts horses' bones.
Unlike China, the border court saves trouble, and first frost does not rest in winter and autumn.
The long wind rustles over the water, and the geese return to the sky.
Join the army, the army will leave the massage parlor in Wan Li.
Khan Wei Qiao has worshipped now. Where can the general find fame?
This seven-character poem is about frontier fortress scenery and military life, which shows a magnificent and vast realm in the alternation of time and space. However, it combines the resentment of ladies, with clear colors, strong and graceful artistic conception, flexible sentence patterns and flowing rhyme, and is sung by all kinds of Tang people.
Su Yang is a heroic figure with great ambitions. His poems, whether about frontier fortress themes or reminiscing about the past, all contain a sad feeling of life, and the poetic landscape is desolate and mature. But there are also some delicate brushwork, such as "Poems for Xue Bozhou", 14th:
Sad to Nanpu, the cold night is gloomy.
Risk, deep smoke.
When flying alone, I miss the couple very much, very lonely.
The wood fell sad and felt centrifugal.
It's true how bitter centrifugation is.
The poem expresses the concern when leaving and the loneliness after leaving.
Some official poems of Xue Daoheng are generous and powerful, such as Crossing the North River:
Saiyun is close to the ship, and Hu Feng enters the array building.
As soon as the sword is pulled out, jiaozi will come out. You will be surprised and want to float.
The Book of Wild Goose will finally take effect, and Yan will be sealed.
Don't hate to close the river far, worry about the river wide.
However, his masterpiece Yesterday's Salt is famous for its richness and delicacy. Such as "the flying soul follows the night magpie, and the tired sleep remembers the morning chicken." A spider web hung in the dark, and the empty beam fell into the mud. "What has always been praised by people is that women live alone in desolate and cold places, setting off their sad mood, expressing their feelings euphemistically and meticulously, and giving full play to the advantages of poetry in the Southern Dynasties.
Another group of writers in the Sui Dynasty were mainly court literati who entered the Sui Dynasty from the Southern Dynasties around Yang Guang and Yang Di. Yu Shiqi is one of the more prestigious writers. He wrote two good works, such as Two Embankments. After Yang Di ascended the throne, he became a highly respected literary attendant. His poems were written for the beauty of words and the neatness of antithesis, purely to create feelings for the text. It was made by Emperor Yang Di himself, and there are some beautiful and lively ones, such as "Moonlit Night on a Spring River":
The twilight river is quiet and the spring flowers are blooming.
The waves will leave the moon, and the tide will bring stars.
Poetry comes from the palace, but the artistic conception is similar to the folk songs of the Southern Dynasties, which can write the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River. The emperor claimed to be a literary leader, and often gathered literati to feast and write poems. He followed the lifestyle of aristocratic literati such as Liang and Chen who took poetry as entertainment, which turned poetry creation into chanting things and trivial matters of court life, and made the style of palace poetry rise.