Literary achievements
Wu Yisheng wrote more than 1000 poems. He is the author of fifty-eight volumes of Mei Cang Draft, Mei Cun Shi Hua, the legendary Moling Spring, Zaju Tongtiantai, Lin Chunting, Sui Koulue of Shicheng, Spring and Autumn Geography, etc.
Wu, together with Qian and Gong Dingzi, is also known as Jiang Zuosan Jie, the pioneer of Loudong Poetry School. Poetry was dominated by patriarchal clan system in the Tang Dynasty, and so was it in the Song Dynasty. Evaluation of the Catalogue of Sikuquanshu: Most of his works are brilliant, full of romantic feelings, flowery and beautiful, which makes people sleepy. Almost a funeral, the experience of ups and downs, Chu's desolation, and strong personality. It can summarize its characteristics and changes.
Poetic features
Wu takes the pain of parting as the center, takes the historical reality in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties as the theme, reflects the social changes of mountains and rivers changing hands, and depicts the picture of life in turbulent years, aiming to preserve history with poetry. There are about four kinds of this kind of poems: one is centered on the court, describing the joys and sorrows of imperial concubines, which leads to the vicissitudes of dynasty change, such as Yonghe Palace Ci, Luoyang Galand Ji, Xiaomen Qu, Tian Jia Tie Shi Ge and so on. The second category focuses on the Ming and Qing wars and peasant uprising struggles, and reveals the trend of the demise of the Ming Dynasty through the account of major events, such as Linjiang joining the army, Yanmen Shangshuhang, Songshan funeral, Yuanyuanqu and so on. The third category, centered on geisha artists, narrates the decline and fall of Wang Xiaochao's court of Nanming axe from the perspective of witnesses, such as listening to the female Taoist priest Bian Yujing, the trip of an old prostitute in Huaihai and the trip to Chu. Finally, there is another kind that exposes the tyranny of the rulers in the early Qing Dynasty and the sufferings of the lower classes, such as Catch a Ship, Luzhou, Horse, Ben Lee and Fuxiang Garden. In addition, there are some works of Long song who cry for national affairs, such as Yuan Hu Qu, Song of Hou Caotang, Song of Wu Sad, etc. , almost can prepare a generation of historical facts. In Mei Hua, he commented on his poem Linjiang Joining the Army: Yu is the most familiar with Jibu (Yang), because he has been in the army for the longest time, so the poem is the most true and the thing is the most appropriate, which is called the history of poetry. This spirit of encouraging himself with the history of poetry has broadened his horizons, made some rumors and gained the ability of ups and downs. He has made outstanding achievements in vividly reflecting the social and historical truth, which is higher than other poets of his time.
Mourning the loss of honor is another theme of his poems. This is marked by the ten-year official career of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty. Between spirit and flesh, moral integrity and life-saving, Wu chose to sacrifice his own life and fell into the painful abyss of shame and humiliation, making the sad song of self-redemption touching and sad. Self-sighing, Feeling after Crossing Wujiang River, Feeling after Crossing Huaiyin, a group of poems, Dismantling Boredom, etc. I repent and redeem myself, showing a very sad mood. I have been an official for a lifetime, abandoned my family and changed my name. I am an old chicken and dog of Wang Huai, and I will not die with the gods. The poem "Nostalgia, Hanging Hou Chaozong" says:
Heluo beacon smoke Wan Li faint, a hundred years of sorrow to easy door. The chivalrous man in the city of Qi was used strangely and instigated Gong E to repay his kindness. It is more common to see clothes being treated as guests, and several people are stunned to send Wang Sun. Life and death always can't win the promise, tears streaming down her face. Poet's Note: The people who returned to Germany in the dynasty made the promise of the book have nothing to hide, and the rest were forced by the world and pretended to be negative. In the word "What makes you feel good when you are sick", self-analysis: an old friend is generous and strange. It is not easy to get rid of a person's wife and wife, but it is worthless. I have not forgotten to reflect on my own death: I have endured death for more than 20 years. How can I eliminate my sin now? Debt is better than a dime. Feel sorry for yourself and regret it. Wu is sincere, and redeeming himself with poetry is indeed the expression of his inner voice. The manuscript of Meicun Family Collection is divided into two episodes, with clear ideas, which shows that he has not avoided and covered up his own stain. When he died, he ordered his family to dress up as monks and named the tomb of the poet Wu Meicun to show his sincerity in repentance and redemption. This kind of poetry is instructive for us to understand the life tragedy struggling in the confusion and conflict between ideal and reality, emotion and reason.