Xin Qiji was a figure in the Song Dynasty.
Xin Qiji (May 28, 1140 - October 3, 1207), courtesy name You'an and Jiaxuan Jushi, was a native of Licheng County, Jinan Prefecture, Shandong East Road (today's Licheng, Shandong Province). Born in the Jin Kingdom, he resisted the Jin Dynasty and returned to the Song Dynasty at a young age. He served as the pacification envoy to Jiangxi and the pacification envoy to Fujian. Due to his status as a reformer, Xin Qiji was never reused by the Southern Song Dynasty court and could not realize his long-cherished wish of the Northern Expedition. As a posthumous gift to the young master, he was given the posthumous title of Zhongmin.
Xin Qiji is a bold poet of the Southern Song Dynasty in China. He is known as the Dragon of Ci. Together with Su Shi, he is known as "Su Xin", and with Li Yian, he is known as "Jinan Er'an". He stands side by side with the patriotic poet Lu You. Xin Qiji's style of poetry is "passionate, heroic, romantic and unrestrained", which represents the highest achievement of heroic poetry in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Xin Qiji's lifelong ambition was to recover and he promised himself success, but his fate was ill-fated and his ambition was difficult to realize. However, he never wavered in his belief in restoring the Central Plains. Instead, he placed all his passion and concerns and worries about the rise and fall of the country and the destiny of the nation in his poems.
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Xin Qiji was a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty of China. He has 626 extant poems and is the writer with the most extant poems in the two Song Dynasties. The poem expresses his patriotic enthusiasm for actively advocating the resistance to the Jin Dynasty and the recovery of the Central Plains from the Southern Song Dynasty. His works have broad themes and diverse styles, mainly bold and unrestrained. He is good at using allusions and line drawings. He has expanded the territory of Ci and improved the expressiveness of Ci. He became one of the most outstanding representative writers in the Southern Song Dynasty Ci world.
Xin Qiji has 629 poems in existence, the main contents of which are fighting against the Jin Dynasty and restoring old rivers and mountains. Many of Xin's Ci poems were about patriotism and restoration, full of patriotic enthusiasm for helping the world, and the idea of ??making contributions and serving the country. Xin's poems have a wide range of contents, and there are also poems about pastoral landscapes, rural life and other contents, revealing his love for pastoral landscapes and rural life.
Junyi is different from the "Jiangxi School" and "Jianghu School" of poetry at that time. Some anti-war poems are tragic and majestic, not inferior to their bold words.
Xin Qiji’s poetry did not receive much attention. His contemporary Liu Kezhuang believed that it was because Xin Qiji’s poetry was so famous that it overshadowed the glory of his poetry. He also believed that Xin Qiji’s poetry was “tragic and intense”. Zou Zhimo of the Qing Dynasty analyzed that Xin Qiji was too good at writing lyrics, which made the poem "unsatisfactory".