Features:
1. Xin Qiji also has his own characteristics in the use of imagery. He rarely uses orchids, willows, flowers, grass and pink beauties commonly seen in traditional lyrics as embellishments: in line with the sad and majestic emotional tone he wants to express, the natural scenery he depicts often has a sense of rushing, towering, and unstoppable. The style of a lifetime.
For example, "The gorge is opposite to the Cangjiang River, and when you pass the dangerous building, you want to fly but then hold back" ("Water Dragon Song"), "Who believes that the peaks in the sky will fly to the ground, and the green walls will open thousands of feet next to the lake" ("The River is Red") 》).
2. Xin Qiji used texts as lyrics. In Xin Qiji’s hands, the language of lyrics became more free and liberated, changing without reason and no longer having rules. In Xin's poems, there are very popular and childish folk language, such as "These things are misleading. If it doesn't come true, I don't miss home" ("Partridge Sky"), "Recently, the sorrow is as big as the sky, who can understand and pity me?" ? Who understands each other's pity and makes a living out of sorrow?" ("Ugly Slave").
3. In addition, his works that describe rural scenery and reflect farm life, such as "Qing Ping Le" (low eaves), "Moon on the Xijiang River" (The bright moon leaves the branches and startle the magpies), "Spring in the Jade House" ( Three, three, two and two, whose daughter) etc., are all full of life and give people a fresh feeling. Extended information
Xin Qiji’s lifelong ambition was to recover, and he promised himself great achievements, but his fate was ill-fated and his ambition was difficult to realize. However, he never wavered in his belief in restoring the Central Plains. Instead, he placed all his passion and concerns and worries about the rise and fall of the country and the destiny of the nation in his poems.
Main achievements:
Xin has more than 600 ci poems in existence, making him the writer with the most ci poems in the Song Dynasty. Most of his poems take the realistic problems of the country and nation as themes and express impassioned patriotism. For example, "The Song of the Water Dragon" (Pegasus Crossing the River Coming South), "Shui Tiao Ge Tou" (Thousand Miles of Wowa Planting), "All the Rivers Are Red" (Wings Flying in the Sky), etc., express the heroic ambition to restore the reunification of the motherland.
Baidu Encyclopedia——Xin Qiji