Under the light of the predecessors, the poetry of the late Tang Dynasty has a tendency to be worse than before, but Li Shangyin pushed Tang poetry to another peak. He is the most famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty. Du Mu is as famous as him, and the two People call him "Xiao Li Du". Li Shangyin, Li He and Li Bai are collectively known as the "Three Lis". There is "Li Yishan Poetry Collection". Together with Wen Tingyun, they are called "Wen Li". Because their poetry styles are similar to those of Duan Chengshi and Wen Tingyun of the same period, and all three of them were ranked sixteenth in the family, they are collectively called "Thirty-sixth Style". His poems are novel in conception and beautiful in style, especially some of his love poems and untitled poems, which are touching and pathos and are widely read. However, some poems are too obscure and confusing to be understood. There is a saying that "poets always love Xikun and hate that no one writes Zheng Jian."
Although the social significance of Li Shangyin's poems is not as good as that of Li Bai, Du Fu, and Bai Juyi, Li Shangyin is the most influential poet for later generations, because people who like Li Shangyin's poems are more interested than those who like Li, Du, and Bai's poems. many. In "Three Hundred Tang Poems" compiled by Sun Zhu of the Qing Dynasty, 32 poems by Li Shangyin were included, ranking second after Du Fu (38 poems), Wang Wei (29 poems), and Li Bai (27 poems). This anthology of Tang poems is well-known in China, which shows Li Shangyin's huge influence among ordinary people.
In the late Tang Dynasty, Han Xie, Wu Rong and Tang Yanqian had begun to consciously study Li Shangyin's poetry style. In the Song Dynasty, there were even more poets who studied Li Shangyin. According to Ye Xie: "There are seven outstanding people in the Song Dynasty, probably sixty-seven who learn from Du Fu, and even thirty-four who learn from Li Shangyin." ("Original Poetry") In the early Northern Song Dynasty, Yang Yi, Liu Jun, Qian Weiyan and others followed the patriarchal Li Shangyin, and often They sang harmoniously with each other, pursuing gorgeous rhetoric and neat contrasts, and published a "Xikun Sing Collection", which is called Xikun style. He was quite influential at the time, but he did not learn the essence of Li Shangyin's poetry, and his achievements were very limited. His influence also disappeared as Ouyang Xiu and others entered the literary world. In addition, Wang Anshi also spoke highly of Li Shangyin and believed that some of his poems "can't be surpassed by Lao Du" ("Cai Kuanfu Poetry Talk"). Wang Anshi's own poetry style was also obviously influenced by Li Shangyin.
Poets of the Ming Dynasty, from the Qizi to Chen Zilong, Qian Qianyi and Wu Weiye, were all influenced by Li Shangyin. People who liked to write erotic poems in the Ming and Qing dynasties especially studied Li Shangyin's untitled poems, such as "Collection of Doubtful Clouds" and "Collection of Doubtful Rain" by late Ming poet Wang Yanhong (Note: Whether "Collection of Doubtful Clouds" is a collection of Wang Yanhong's works, academic There is considerable controversy in the industry). The erotic poems in the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School novels during the Republic of China were also influenced by him.
For information about Li Shangyin’s influence on later generations, please refer to Wu Diaogong’s “Li Shangyin’s Influence on the Poetry Circle of the Northern Song Dynasty”, “Li Shangyin’s Beautiful Aftermath in the Qing Dynasty”, Wang Yuxiang’s “Li Shangyin’s Influence on Su Manshu’s Poems”, and Wang Zhaoyang Papers such as "On the Influence of Li Shangyin's Poems on the Formation of the Unique Style of Ci" and Liu Xuekai's "Li Shangyin's Poems and Graceful Ci of Tang and Song Dynasties".
(The above content is taken from the entry of "Li Shangyin" in Baidu Encyclopedia)