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Li Shangyin is famous for his untitled poems. According to statistics, the poems included in Li Shangyin's Collection of Poems [7] can basically confirm that there are 15 * * poems written by poets with untitled names:
Untitled (looking in the mirror at the age of eight)
Untitled (according to Liang)
Two Untitled Poems (Stars last night; Wendao Luomen)
Four Untitled Poems (empty talk; Southeast; Affectionate spring night; Where to mourn Zheng)
Untitled (after a brief encounter)
Untitled (immortal son)
"Untitled Two Songs" (Feng Luo; The curtain falls)
Untitled (near the famous Ahou)
Untitled (white roads)
Untitled (Wan Li Storm)
The other five poems (Five Laws, Lover's Forever, Seven Poems, Painting with Long Eyebrows, Princess Shouyang, Waiting for Lang Lai, Chanting in the Outdoor) which are often marked as untitled in current poetry collections are considered by Feng Hao, Ji Yun and others to be mostly untitled poems because they have lost their original titles.
Some researchers (such as Liu Yang [9]) think that some poems with questions in Li Shangyin's poetry collection should also belong to the category of untitled poems, on the grounds that the titles of these poems are often based on the first few words in the first sentence of the poem (such as Yesterday, The Sun shines, etc.). ), or the title of the poem has nothing to do with the content itself (for example, for you, a song, etc.). ). However, according to this standard, nearly 100 of Li Shangyin's poems can be classified as untitled poems. So this statement has not been supported by most people.
On the other hand, many people tend to compare poems such as Jinse, Bi Cheng San and Yushan with untitled poems, thinking that they are similar in style and artistic conception, and they all express a subtle and complicated feeling through obscure brushwork. In fact, it is this complicated situation that makes untitled poems attract many researchers, who try to explain the true meaning of these poems. However, no one's comments can explain the meaning of this poem very convincingly.
Feng Hao summarized the previous annotation work on untitled poems in Notes on Poems Born in Yuxi [10], from which we can see that there are great differences among different schools: "Those who solve untitled poems by themselves are either fables or endowed with all the abilities. Each has his own prejudices and his own decisions. I read the complete works carefully, and even many people actually have sustenance, and few people are erotic and confused. "
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Few people talk about Li Shangyin's writing achievements other than poetry. In fact, he was one of the most important parallel prose writers in the late Tang Dynasty. This style pays attention to the antithesis of words and uses a lot of allusions, which is widely used in official documents of the Tang Dynasty. Under the training of Ling Huchu, Li Shangyin became an expert in parallel prose, drafting memorials, letters and other documents for many officials. "Biography of Wen Yuan in Old Tang Dynasty" said that Li Shangyin was "particularly easy to handle funerals". At that time, the parallel prose used in the performance of the text required gorgeous words and accurate expression, so it had high requirements for allusion. Li Shangyin, who is good at writing parallel prose, has developed the habit of using allusions, so this is considered to be the reason why he likes to use allusions in poems [3].
Li Shangyin once compiled his parallel prose works into 20 volumes of Fan Nanjia Collection and 20 volumes of Fan Nanyi Collection, with a total of 832 articles. According to the records in the Book of the New Tang Dynasty and Records of the History and Arts of the Song Dynasty, Li Shangyin's collected works are not only two episodes, but also some others. However, none of these collections have been handed down. At present, there are Zhu, Xu Jiong, Qian Zhenlun, Qian Zhenchang, Zhang Caitian, Cen, Liu and Yu Shucheng who can see Li Shangyin's articles. It has been compiled and verified by books such as Quan, Wen Yuan and Tang. The newly compiled Notes on Li Shangyin's Chronicle (Liu Xueyan and Yu Shucheng, Zhonghua Book Company, 2002) contains 352 articles, most of which are parallel prose, and a few of them are called "ancient prose".
Fan Wenlan spoke highly of Li Shangyin's parallel prose in A Brief History of China, thinking that it would be a pity if all the parallel prose in the Tang Dynasty were lost as long as the Collected Works of Fan Nan was still there.