Yang Wanli's poetry creation has generally experienced the transition from imitation to self-integration. Thirty-two years ago in Shaoxing, he studied the style of Jiangxi school, and this poem was later burned by him. From then on, in the fourth year of Xichun (1 177), his poetic style changed.
During this period, on the one hand, he studied and discussed the philosophical thoughts of Neo-Confucianism from Zhang Jun and Zhang Wei, and at the same time, he moved his opinions from his daily life to his literary creation. He said in the poem "Tang Deming builds a Zhai": "I have been a thorn in my side all my life, and later I learned that there are no children like this. I am sweating and laughing at the river. " This attitude of despising books and attaching importance to daily life has become an opportunity for his poetic style to change.
There are more than 700 poems in Jianghu Collection, some of which are based on Chen Shidao's Five Laws, Wang Anshi's Seven Laws and the quatrains of the Tang Dynasty, and some humorous and brisk poems. After five years of cherishing spring, the unique style of Yang Wanli's poems has basically taken shape, and his poetic view has basically matured.
This view of attaching great importance to observing nature and drawing materials from daily life is a powerful counterattack against the poetic theory of "taking the fetus as the bone" and "turning iron into gold" advocated by Jiangxi poets in the past. Formed a "sincere style" with natural fluency, humor and liveliness as the basic characteristics in language.
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Yang Wanli's poems had a great influence at that time: "Who is the master in today's poetry world, Cheng Zhai's poetry method is being implemented." (Jiang Teli's "Xie Yangcheng Zhai President's Sentence") "The four seas become Zhai to dominate the poetry world." (Xiang Anshi's "Two Poems of Pan Yang with Rhyme")
Yang Wanli learned extensively from his predecessors, but he never stood still, but was determined to surpass him. He said, "I didn't know there were predecessors in the pen." ("Let the guests go home at night") and said: "I am ashamed of biographies, and screenwriters have their own romantic lives. Huang (Huang Tingjian) and Chen (ornaments) rest under the fence, while Tao (Tao Yuanming) and Xie (Xie Lingyun) go further. "
(Postscript Xu Jin's Poems on a Visit to the Province) It is with this pioneering and innovative spirit that he refused to follow others' advice and finally "shed all his fur and express himself" ("Song Poetry Money Sincerity"), instead of turning all the way, becoming a unique poetic style.
The beginners of Jiangxi Poetry School focus on the rhythm of words. After the age of 50, the style of poetry has changed, from imitating predecessors to imitating nature, creating his unique "sincere style" Chengzhai pays attention to the so-called "living method", that is, he is good at capturing fleeting interests and expressing them in humorous and simple language. For example, "Ba Fengbo": "Fengbo advised you to have a glass of wine, why bother to play a bad drama and shock poetry!" It fully embodies the characteristics of Chengzhai style.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Yang Wanli (a famous poet and minister in Southern Song Dynasty)