Although the mainstream of poetry creation in the early Tang Dynasty was still influenced by palace poems, even Emperor Taizong tried to write palace poems and let Yu Shinan sing them. However, Yu Shinan refused palace poems and directly refused: "The work of the Holy Family is sincere and the style of writing is indecent." What is good in the world is good in the world. I'm afraid this poem will be popular all over the world, so I won't respond. It can be seen that people in this period have begun to criticize the style of palace poems fiercely.
While criticizing, there is still a school that sticks to the tradition of court poetry and shifts the theme to the theme of "praising", that is, Shangguan Yi and his friends. This kind of poetry, which is quite outstanding in both poetry theory and creative practice, is called "official style" Shangguan Yi is a typical courtier, and his poems "mainly focus on strangeness and charm", which contain many songs describing court life. Theoretically, it stylized the antithesis of poetry creation in the Six Dynasties and put forward the norms of "six pairs" and "eight pairs", which made the court poetry more complete in rhythm and format.
Shangguan Yi (about 608 ~ 664) was a rising star in the early Tang Dynasty. Because he grew up in a temple in the south, influenced by the culture of the Southern Dynasties and palace poems, his writing style was "colorful". He is good at five words, rules and regulations, and his content is mostly tailor-made works, singing praises, whitewashing peace and pursuing formality in form. Gorgeous words, charming mistakes. Because of its prominent position, many people imitate it, which is called Shangguan style internationally.
Biography of Shangguan Yi in the Old Tang Dynasty: "Works in five-character poems, is good at making mistakes and charming." Due to the high price of musical instruments, many people learned their styles at that time, and people called it official style. "Shangguanti's" Qi Cuo Wan Mei "has a tendency to attach importance to the formal skills of poetry and pursue the beauty of poetry sounds and words. Shangguan Yi summed up the dual method of poetry after the Six Dynasties, and put forward the theory of six pairs and eight pairs to distinguish even sentences by the symmetry effect of sound and meaning, which has expanded from the general study of part-of-speech sounds to the distribution of the whole image of conjunctions. He represented the formalistic tendency of the court poets at that time and promoted the stereotypes of metrical poems.