There are quite a few works in Li Yishan's poetry collection that directly touch current politics, showing the poet's distinctive political attitude and unusual courage. Such as "affection" and "attaching importance to affection", strongly attacking the eunuchs in charge of state affairs; Call an Gongzhu to surrender, etc. , denounced the buffer region that brought disaster to the country and people, and satirized the court's appeasement of the strong vassal. Especially "A Hundred Rhymes in the Western Suburb".
Li Shangyin's epic has also made great achievements. They record historical lessons and hope that those in power will take them as a warning, which is of great practical significance. Such as Fuping Shaohou, Southern Dynasties, Northern Qi and so on. Whipped the arrogance and extravagance of feudal emperors in history.
Yao Chi and Jia Sheng satirize the emperor's vain pursuit of immortals and reveal the poet's ambition. Ma Wei, Long Chi, Hua, etc. , are directly aimed at the emperor, has a strong shock.
Li Shangyin (about 8 12 or 813—about 858), born in the west of Henan, Fan Nansheng, was born in Hanoi, Huaizhou (now Qinyang, Henan). Li Shangyin was a scholar in the second year of Kaicheng (837), and served as secretary of the provincial school book lang, chief of Hongnong County and secretary of the provincial orthography.
At that time, the struggle between Niu and Li was fierce, and Li Shangyin was involved in the whirlpool and was excluded by politics. In his later years, Li Shangyin worked as an aide in Guizhou, Xuzhou and Zizhou three times, and died of depression in Xingyang.
Li Shangyin is a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, and his poems have high literary value. He and Du Mu are called "Little Du Li" and Wen is called "Wen Li". Li Shangyin's style is similar to that of Duan Hewen in the same period, ranking 16th in the family, so it is also called 36-style. Among the 300 Tang poems, Li Shangyin has 22 poems, ranking fourth in quantity.