On the Pastoral Poetry Creation of Lu You, Fan Chengda and Yang Wanli.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, the inheritance and development of landscape pastoral poetry should be the first to promote the "four masters of Zhongxing". They broke through the barriers of Jiangxi poetry school and made great achievements in poetry creation. Among them, Yang Wanli, for example, draws on natural materials, absorbs ordinary things that can be seen at any time in life, and blends his true feelings with fresh and lively language that appeals to both refined and popular tastes, forming a "sincere style" with novel artistic conception and full of interest. He writes about quiet ponds or rural scenery in summer. He is good at capturing images, and his poems are full of life. Fan Chengda, on the other hand, pays attention to real life. Whether he is an official or retired, he shows that he is a poet with patriotic thoughts and cares about people's livelihood. Fan Chengda is famous for his pastoral poems, among which the most successful is sixty Four Seasons Pastoral Music written by Shi Hu in his later years. These sixty quatrains of four seasons are divided into five groups: spring, late spring, summer, autumn and winter, with twelve poems in each group, which constitute a whole group of poems, profoundly and comprehensively reflecting the rural life in the south of the Yangtze River. These poems use natural and fluent language to outline an idyllic picture full of life. There are magnificent and beautiful natural scenery, simple and touching customs, and joyful labor songs. Of course, in Fan Chengda's pastoral poems, there is also indignation at the oppression and exploitation of the people by the exploiting classes. The poet Lu You wrote in "The Farmer's Sigh" the tragic situation that the peasants worked hard but could not get enough food and clothing, and were forced to rent by the government. There are also some poems by Lu You, which vividly depict the magnificent scenery of nature and simple rural life customs, and constitute a unique picture of social life. Although these are not the main body of Lu You's poems, there is no doubt that they can all be classified as pastoral poems.