Introduction to Jianghu School

The elegance of Jianghu Ci School in Southern Song Dynasty originated from Jiang Kui. Jiang Kui's ethereal and elegant style originated from Su Shi and Xin Qiji respectively. Su Xin didn't mean to write lyrics, and their ethereal and elegant were realized through poetic ways. Jiang Kui is the same as Su Xin in quoting poems and auxiliary words, but he deliberately writes words, integrating the rhythm, creative style and aesthetic ideal of words to a certain extent, and combining the emptiness and elegance that are not necessarily related to each other to form a new style of words. The theory and creation of Jianghu Ci School in Southern Song Dynasty is to explain and popularize this ethereal and elegant ci style.

Imagination is a creative style of Song Ci. One is represented by Su Shi and the other is represented by Jiang Kui. They are similar in that they all use poetry as their words. However, there are great differences in specific methods. Su Shi despised all laws and regulations and turned Ci into a new style poem with long and short sentences. Jiang Kui engaged in the creation of Ci with a conscious mind, and earnestly explored various statutes of Ci. Take Yang Wanli's masterpiece "I was in Jinling when I sent the book to Chengzhai" as an example: the old wheel of calligraphy was really wiped out by the whole army. Every year, I have no leisure time, and I am afraid to see you everywhere. Arrows are popular on water in central Africa. Mr. Wang Can wrote only 3,000 songs, looking back at the sunset glow in Jiangdong. Originated from the deep appeal for words, the writing style is true and magical from the heart. Su Shi despised all statutes from the beginning and turned words into a new style poem with long and short sentences. Later, Li Qingzhao criticized Dongpo's ci as "an unreadable poem". It was not until Jiang Kui became a poet that this trend changed. Jiang Kui engaged in the creation of Ci with a conscious mind, and earnestly explored various statutes of Ci. Later, Lu Fuzhi's Ci Zhi inherited Zhang Yan's theory of word form, thinking that "etymology" refers to the essence of mystery, which is all empty. This kind of empty morphology includes the elegance of halal poetry, the elegance of Baishi poetry, the literariness of Mengchuang poetry and the syntax of Meixi poetry, which is similar to the "one ancestor and three schools" of Jiangxi poetry school. From the perspective of lexical abstraction, it combines two creative styles of Jianghu Ci School.