The poet Yuan Zhen highly praised Du Fu's poems. His poetics can be transformed into Du Fu. His plain and lively style is beautiful and gorgeous, with strong colors, tortuous descriptions, vivid and touching details and interesting contrast techniques.
Yuefu poetry occupies an important position in Yuan poetry. His Twelve Poems of Yuefu, New Topics of Li Pai's Books and People with Special Anxiety when Taking Illness inspired Bai Juyi to create a new Yuefu, which has certain practical significance. The disadvantage is that the theme is not focused enough and the image is not clear enough. As well as Liu Meng's and Li Yu's 19 ancient Yuefu poems, we can use ancient poems to create new meanings, with profound themes, concentrated descriptions and powerful performances. The long narrative poem Lian Chang Gong Ci was also classified as Yuefu in Yuan Dynasty, which was intended to be ironic and was as famous as Song of Eternal Sorrow. Its details describe beauty and nature. The most distinctive poems in Yuan Dynasty are colourful poems and mourning poems. He is good at writing about the love between men and women, and his description is meticulous and vivid, which is different from the general description of Yan's poems. Mourning poems were written in memory of his wife, Wei Cong. Among them, three mourning poems are the most widely circulated.
In the form of poetry, Yuan Zhen is the founder of "paying with rhyme". "Appreciating Lotte" in Hanlin's Appreciating Bai Xueshi and Southeast Poems is to reuse the original rhyme of white poems in turn, with the same rhyme but different meanings. This practice of "paying for two rhymes" had a great influence at that time, and it was also prone to abuse. Yuan Zhen also made some achievements in prose and legend. He was the first person to write letters in ancient Chinese, which made his handwriting beautiful and imitated by others. His Biography of Yingying (also known as Hui Zhenji) tells the tragic love story between Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying, with beautiful writing and meticulous description, which is a famous piece in tang legends. Later generations of drama writers created many dramas with story characters as their themes, such as Dong Jieyuan's The West Chamber and Wang Shifu's The West Chamber in Yuan Dynasty. Yuan Zhen compiled his own poems and collected them with friends. This anthology, Changqing Collection of Yuanshi County, contains poems, edicts, remonstrances, etc. *** 100 volumes. For the deeds, see Biography of Old and New Books of Tang Dynasty. Today, Chen Yinke's Poem Talk and Bian's Chronicle of Yuan Zhen.
Main work
The representative works are Chrysanthemum, Five Poems of Leaving Thoughts (No.4), Three Poems of Sorrow, Rabbit Silk, A Letter from He Pei School, A Crane Flying, Night Pond, Feeling for the Past (East Zhejiang), Late Spring, Jing 'an Poor House and Sending to Use. Among them, Chrysanthemum, Five Thoughts Poems (Part II) and Three Sorrow Poems (Part II) are widely circulated. This poem has been written for a long time, and I don't think about its content. Since then, I have never had any thoughts about other women, because I once met my lover ("too lazy to look back"). Bi Xing's poem "Once the sea was difficult for water, it was always amber" is very popular because of its fantastic language and hazy artistic conception. However, "Three Mourning Poems" expresses endless thoughts about his dead wife, so sad that people can't help but sympathize with tears. Among them, the ending sentence of the second poem "but not as those who have been poor together know" is familiar to the world. Wei's Collection has the same name as Juyi's Changqing. This collection of poems consists of 28 volumes (396-423 volumes of all Tang poems).