After Wang Anshi, a writer and politician in the Northern Song Dynasty, retired to Jiangning, his poetic style changed greatly. He was far away from politics and society and wrote more about mountains and rivers. In form, quatrains are the main form, and there are few long and ancient styles; In art, it pays attention to refining words and antithesis, and its artistic conception is beautiful and implicit, which has high artistry. Later generations called his poetic style in this period "half mountain".
It is characterized by elegance, abstinence, getting rid of customs, and having more than seven quatrains.
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The origin of Banshan Mountain:
In his later years, Wang Anshi lived in seclusion in Zhongshan, the east of Nanjing, also known as Zijin Mountain. This mountain is 7 miles to the west of Nanjing City and about 7 miles to the top of Zhongshan Mountain to the east, so it is called Banshan Mountain. During this period, his poems described the natural scenery in the form of four verses, paying attention to refining the meaning of words, such as
has been appreciated by poetic theorists in past dynasties, and is known as the Half Mountain in the world. Also known as "Wang Jing Gong Ti", Mid-Levels quatrains and Mid-Levels Poems, Wang Anshi is called "Mr. Mid-Levels" by the world.
in literature, Wang Anshi has made outstanding achievements. His prose is concise, short and pithy, with clear arguments, strict logic and strong persuasiveness, which gives full play to the practical functions of ancient Chinese prose and ranks among the "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties". His poem "learning from Du Fu is thin and hard" is good at reasoning and rhetoric.
In his later years, his poetic style was subtle and profound, profound and unpretentious, and he became a school of his own in the poetry circle of the Northern Song Dynasty, known as "Wang Jinggong Style" in the world. His ci poems are full of nostalgia and nostalgia, with vast artistic conception and simple image, creating a unique emotional world for literati. There are Wang Linchuan Collection and Linchuan Collection.
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