Willow branches: the name of willow branches appeared in a group of poems (five willow branches) written by Li Shangyin in the first year of Kaicheng. She is the daughter of a wealthy businessman in Luoyang. She is lively and lovely, cheerful and generous. Hearing Li Shangyin's poems by chance, she fell in love with him and took the initiative to date him. But Li Shangyin stood me up. He later learned that Herry Liu was taken as a concubine by a powerful man. The two never met again.
Song Huayang: Li Shangyin studied Taoism in Yuyang Mountain in his youth, so some people suspect that he had an affair with a female Taoist during this period. Li Shangyin mentioned the name of "Song Huayang" in his poems, such as Remembering the Sisters of Song Huayang on a Moonlight Night, Giving Huayang a Song Zhenren and Seeing Mr. Liu off in Qing Dynasty, so Song Huayang was regarded as Li Shangyin's lover.
Lotus: According to folklore, before he married Wang, he had a lover nicknamed "Lotus" and they fell in love very much. One month before he went to Beijing to take the exam, Lotus suddenly became seriously ill, and Li Shangyin spent his last time with Lotus. This tragedy dealt a great blow to him. In his later poems, he often took lotus as the topic, which was also an attachment to old feelings.
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Li Shangyin's poetry is unique in the late Tang Dynasty, because he is sentimental and devoted to it. He uses many works to express the feelings of late Tang scholars and their persistence in love, thus creating a new style and a new realm of poetry. His poems are novel in conception and beautiful in style, especially some love poems and untitled poems, which are lingering and memorable.
In addition, Li Shangyin used subtle and hazy expression techniques to the extreme, but some poems were too obscure and puzzling to be solved. There was a saying that "poets always loved Quincy, but only hated that no one wrote Jian Zheng". The highest achievement of Li Shangyin's poetry is modern poetry, especially seven-character poems. He is the second milestone after Du Fu in the development history of the Seven Laws in Tang Dynasty.