It is absolutely necessary to reasonably allocate and use the syllables of poetry to make it have harmonious and smooth phonological beauty. But if the requirements are too strict, it will inevitably bring some disadvantages. It can be seen from some existing materials that Shen Yue and others' requirements for temperament are very detailed, complicated and strict, and even Shen Yue himself can hardly meet the requirements, which shows its great difficulty. The strict requirement of Yongming style on temperament will undoubtedly bring some disadvantages to poetry creation, which has been pointed out by predecessors. However, previous comments only paid full attention to the negative factors brought by Yongming style to the poetry circle. The fact of the development of literary history proves that the discovery of four tones and the appearance of eternal body make poets have the consciousness of consciously mastering and using temperament, which is of positive significance to increase the aesthetic feeling of poetry art form and enhance the artistic effect of poetry. A poet with eternal style, that is, there are many excellent works; What's more, the later maturity of metrical poetry is also based on this! As you can imagine, without the invention of four tones and the emergence of Yongming style, the poems and songs of the Tang Dynasty would not be so brilliant. Wen Xin Diao Long (Liu Xie)
In a word, the appearance of Yongming style marks a great progress in China's classical poetry. Through the continuous exploration of many poets, it is more ingenious, gorgeous, rigorous and concise than classical poetry in rhyme, antithesis, diction, conception and artistic conception. Of course, due to the excessive pursuit of formal beauty and the limitation of sound sickness, it is bound to produce some disadvantages such as "elegant literary style is similar to form" (Liu Xie's "Literary Mind Carving Dragons Looking for a Job") and "literary taboo hurts its beauty" (Rong Rong's "Preface to Poetry"). However, their excellent works, after all, injected new breath into the poetry circle at that time and established a new aesthetic style; Their rich artistic experience also laid the foundation for the maturity of regular poetry and the prosperity of Tang poetry.
Position in the history of literature
Before "Yongming Style", "Ancient Style Poetry", also known as "Ancient Style Poetry" and "Ancient Style Poetry", was popular in poetry circles. Each sentence has four words, five words, six words, seven words and miscellaneous words, and even words and rhymes are free to use. After the Tang Dynasty, metrical poems and quatrains were formed, which were called "Modern Poetry" and "Modern Poetry". This is in contrast to "ancient poetry", which has strict rules on the number of sentences, words, levels and rhymes. The embryonic form of this kind of "modern poetry" is "new poetry", that is, "Yongming poetry". The appearance of "Yongming style" marks the temporary end of ancient style poetry and indicates that "modern style poetry" is about to appear. Therefore, even if future generations criticize "Yongming Style" poems in one way or another, we should affirm the position of "Yongming Style" poems in the history of literature and give them due evaluation.