Bold works are bold and unconstrained, full of lofty sentiments and ambitions, giving people a positive force; Graceful and restrained works have beautiful and subtle language, lingering feelings, relaxed and lively artistic conception, deep parting sorrow or bitterness, fine carving and narrow subject matter. They often write about personal experiences, love between men and women, and occasionally write about the scenery, blending their feelings into the scenery.
Wen, the originator of Graceful School, and later Wang, in more than 300 years, the so-called "Gracious School" has a large number of works with narrow themes, most of which are farewell, love between men and women, drunken songs, cherishing spring flowers and so on.
Although Liu Yong, Li Qingzhao and others developed in the meantime, it was difficult to get rid of the shackles after all, and the bold school completely broke through the traditional fence of "Ke Yan". With the courage of an innovator, Su Shi transformed Ci from a tool of "entertaining guests and people" into an independent lyric art; Push this word from "before the bottle" and "between the flowers" to a broader social life. You can't enter unintentionally, and you can't talk about anything.
In the form of words, graceful school and wild school also took two different paths. Graceful poets firmly bound their hands and feet. At this point, the school of metrical words represented by Zhou Bangyan and He Zhu reached its peak. But the bold school is not bound by the form, but fully mobilizes the form to serve the content.
Graceful school's scenery description is exquisite, the music form is full, the rhetoric is gorgeous, and the lyric is euphemistic and implicit; However, a big outline is sketched out, which is simple and lively, without rhetoric and straightforward. Graceful and restrained school has its own uniqueness in image description, especially in the application of online drawing techniques.
Being able to achieve "difficult scenery, difficult feelings" has also achieved some success in euphemistic implication of lyricism, and can create an artistic realm of blending scenes. It looks elegant and beautiful, but it is sentimental and has no high spirits. The uninhibited school combines scenery, lyricism and discussion in one furnace, and its structure is jumping and turbulent, crisscrossing.
It has created an open and vigorous artistic realm, and its style is clear and heroic, which is beyond the reach of the graceful school, but it seems to be slightly inferior to the graceful school in the detailed description and depiction of the specific image and the psychological state of the characters.