Although the social significance of Li Shangyin's poems is not as good as that of Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi, Li Shangyin is the most influential poet in later generations, because there are more people who like Li Shangyin's poems than Du Li and Bai Juyi.
Influence on later generations:
Among the 300 Tang poems edited by Sun Zhu in the Qing Dynasty, 22 poems by Li Shangyin were included, ranking fourth after Du Fu (38 poems), Wang Wei (29 poems) and Li Bai (27 poems). This anthology of Tang poems is a household name in China, from which we can see Li Shangyin's great influence on ordinary people.
In the late Tang Dynasty, Han Wo, Wu Rong, Tang and others began to consciously learn Li Shangyin's poetic style.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, there were obviously two styles of learning Li Shangyin's poems: the early Xikun School expanded the dross of Li's poems; Later, Wang Anshi and Huang Tingjian absorbed Shili's nutrition on the premise of being good at innovation. During the Southern Song Dynasty, due to the sharp ethnic contradictions, poems expressing the thoughts of worrying about the country and the people became the mainstream for a while, which was far from Li Shangyin's style, and the aftermath of Li's poems temporarily subsided.
Li Shangyin's poetic school experienced a decline in the Ming Dynasty. After entering the Qing Dynasty, its influence in the poetry circle expanded, especially in the early and late Qing Dynasty, showing a beautiful situation. This paper discusses in detail the influence of Li Shangyin's poems on poets Qian and Wu in Qing Dynasty, as well as poets in Hunan and Jiangnan during the propaganda period.