Yu Xin's Portrait of Writing
The characteristics of Yu Xin's Ci and Fu should be divided into two stages. When he was in the south, his works were mostly palace-style, and his early works were the representatives of palace-style literature. Most of his later works were parallel prose, which he pushed to the peak. Although Yu Xin's ci and fu have made great contributions to the development of the north, its characteristics have also been commented by theorists of past dynasties. From the Sui Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty and even to the Qing Dynasty, many scholars raised objections to his ci and fu.
Yu Xin was born in Xinye, Nanyang, and the times were turbulent. He personally experienced the whole process of the Liang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and then to extinction. From the gorgeous life in the palace to the turbulent running around and seeing one's country destroyed with one's own eyes, it is impossible for such an experience not to be abandoned by a gifted scholar with good literary accomplishment. Therefore, it is natural that the characteristics of Yu Xin's ci and fu are changeable.
Since his youth, Yu Xin, with his father Yu Jianwu's position, brilliant literary talent and extraordinary wisdom, has been able to enter and leave the Palace and the Forbidden City, and has a reputation of dominating the literary world. It can be said that his early works are all about happiness. However, the situation is turbulent, and the pain of national subjugation that he personally experienced is unknown. After that, he was detained in the north and was reused by the emperor. Since then, his literary ci has also changed. From his ci and fu, we can see his deep nostalgia for the motherland and incomparable deep feelings.
The artistic features of Yu Xin's poems can be divided into two periods, the early period and the later period are different. The artistic features of Yu Xin's early poems are mostly happy, while the artistic features of his late poems are slightly sad, which is also related to his personal experience.
Yu Xin portrait
Yu Xin was a great litterateur in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and his poetic artistic features also changed due to the turmoil of the current situation. According to historical records, Yu Xin is young, handsome and clever. He used his father's prominent position as a child, combined with his own intelligence, and often went in and out of the court. Later, together with Xu Ling, he served as a bachelor of Xiaogang's Oriental Palace. They are all outstanding scholars. Most of their works tend to court and become the representative writers of court literature. Their literary style is called Yu Xu style.
Early poems showed elegance and gracefulness, and at the same time, they were short-length works describing women's beauty or lovesickness, which mostly belonged to the category of court literature. Its language is gorgeous, it pays attention to syllables, and its music effect is strong. The most representative one is "Ode to Spring". His early works have made great achievements in language skills, but his living environment is limited and the content reflected is too narrow.
Yu Xin's early works showed the court style, which was his foundation, so that his later works did not abandon this style. He wrote twenty-five poems of Painting Screen, which reflected the characteristics of Yu Xin's later poems. He is very good at combining what he wants to express with pictures with landscape poems, which is both natural and inseparable from pictures. But in his later works, the most important thing is his self-expression and nostalgia for his hometown.