Li Shangyin is famous for his untitled poems. According to the statistics of poems collected in "Annotation of Li Shangyin's Poetry Collection" [7], it can be basically confirmed that there are 15 poems named after "Untitled" when the poet was writing:
"Untitled" (early eight years old) Looking in the mirror)
"Untitled" (Looking at Liang Chu's love)
"Untitled Two" (Last Night's Stars; Wen Daochang Gate)
"Untitled Four" "First" (Coming with empty words; rustling in the southeast; affectionate Spring Festival evening; where to mourn the zither)
"Untitled" (It's difficult to meet each other)
"Untitled" (Purple Mansion Immortal) )
"Untitled Two Poems" (Phoenix Tail Fragrance; heavy curtains lowered)
"Untitled" (nearly well-known Ahou)
"Untitled" (Baidao lingers)
"Untitled" (Thousands of Miles of Storm)
There are also 5 poems that are often labeled as "Untitled" in currently popular poetry anthologies (Five Rhymes "Youren Bu Tireless") "Reward", Qijue "Long Eyebrow Painted", "Shouyang Princess", "Waite Lang Lai", "Outdoor Chongyin"), after research by Feng Hao, Ji Yun and others, it is believed that it is mostly due to version issues. The original title is missing, so it is not a true untitled poem.
Some researchers (such as Yang Liu[9]) believe that some of the titled poems in Li Shangyin’s collection should also be classified as untitled poems. The reason is that the titles of these poems are often taken from the first sentence of the poem. The title is a few words (such as "Yesterday", "Sunshot", etc.), or the title of the poem has no connection with the content itself (such as "Wei You", "One Piece", etc.). But if we look at it according to this standard, there are nearly a hundred poems in Li Shangyin's poetry collection that can be classified as untitled poems. Therefore, this theory is not supported by most people.
On the other hand, many people tend to compare poems such as "Jin Se", "Three Poems of Bicheng" and "Jade Mountain" with untitled poems, believing that they are similar in writing style and artistic conception, and both It expresses a subtle and complex emotion through obscure brushstrokes. In fact, it is this indescribable situation that makes the untitled poems attract many researchers, who are trying to explain the true meaning of these poems. However, no one's annotation can very convincingly clarify the meaning of the poem.
Feng Hao summarized the previous annotation work on untitled poems in "Annotations to the Collection of Poems by Yu Xisheng" [10], from which we can see the great difference in the views of various schools: "Those who interpret untitled poems by themselves, It may be said that they are all fables, or that they all have their own prejudices and cannot decide against each other. After reading the whole collection carefully, it turns out that there are many who have sustenance and few who are passionate. It is confusing to distinguish between them. Ear.
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