Xie Tao is a representative writer of Yongming style poetry in the Southern Qi Dynasty. He, Shen Yue, Wang Rong and others studied the coordination of tone, rhyme and tone in poetry based on the four tones of Chinese, put forward the theory of "eight diseases", created the Yongming style, and made contributions to the development of modern poetry. His main achievement in poetry creation is the development of landscape poetry. Xie Zao's landscape poems are as famous as Xie Lingyun's, and they are known as Er Xie in the world. Because Xie Zao and Xie Lingyun share the same ancestry, they are also called Big Xie. The landscape poems of Da Xie (Ling Yun) have not yet been separated from the influence of the metaphysical poetry style, and there is always a metaphysical color behind the modeling of mountains and rivers; the landscape poems of Xiao Xie (Zhen) are completely depictions of natural landscapes, and the metaphysical elements have been eliminated. All. Xie Tao's poems have exquisite language and harmonious phonology, which embody the characteristics of Yongming style poetry. For example, "The lingering clouds disperse into clouds, and the Chengjiang River is as quiet as practice" ("I climbed three mountains in the evening and looked back at Jingyi"); "I know the boat is returning to the sky, and the trees on the river can be seen in the clouds" ("Xuancheng County leaves Xinlinpu towards Banqiao") Wait, fresh and handsome, refined policeman and beautiful, is a famous saying that has been passed down through the ages. Li Bai, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, was most enamored of Xie Tao. Wang Shizhen's "On Poetry Quatrains" of the Qing Dynasty said that Li Bai "bowed his head to thank Xuancheng throughout his life." Xie Zao's poems not only influenced the poets of the Tang Dynasty, but also influenced the style of poetry of a generation. There are more than 200 poems in existence today. "Sui Shu·Jing Ji Zhi" contains 12 volumes of "Collected Works of Xie Zhen" and 1 volume of "Collected Works of Xie Zhenyi", both of which are lost. Later generations compiled "Xie Xuancheng Collection". Today's Cao Rongnan has "Xie Xuancheng Collection and Collation Notes".
At that time, Xiao Ziliang, the second son of Emperor Wu of Qi and Prince Jingling, was good at Buddhist scriptures and loved literature, so he recruited scribes widely. There were no less than 300 literati who came in and out of his vassal residence. Among them, eight people including Xie Tiao, Wang Rong, Ren Fang, Shen Yue, Lu Jue, Fan Yun, Xiao Chen, Xiao Yan, etc. were the most beloved by King Jingling, and they were called the It is called "Eight Friends of Jingling". Their poetry creation at that time was innovative in structure and rhyme, and has always been called "Yongming style" new poetry by literary historians.
Among these eight people, Ren Fang is famous for his writing skills, while Xie Tiao is the most famous for his poetry. Shen Yue is good at both poetry and prose, but is slightly inferior to the first two. However, Shen Yue compiled "Four Tone Score" in order to summarize how poetry can seek its own phonological rules after being separated from the movement of Yuefu poetry. Although it was still very immature and complicated, it undoubtedly had positive significance at the time.
Xie Tiao’s five-character poems made early use of the results of the "Four Tone Spectrum" and absorbed the nutrients of the new tones of Jingbai. He said with deep understanding: "Good poems are round and beautiful, and they flow like bullets." His poems are good at capturing the most touching moments in natural scenery, and express the beauty of nature with clear and handsome lines. For example, in "Traveling to the East Fields", "The trees in the distance are warm and the smoke is spreading across the desert. Fish are playing with the new lotuses, and the birds are scattered and the flowers are falling." In "Going out of the new forest with Xu Du Cao", "The road ends in the green suburbs. Looking back at the Cangjiang River. The Rihua River is moving on the river, and the scenery is floating among the grass." "The house is opened to face the autumn wind, and the window is opened to look at the cold sun. The wind breaks the lotus in the pond, and the frost cuts the green of the south of the Yangtze River" and so on. Before the emergence of five-character poems such as Wang Wei's in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it could be said to be the top grade in the poetry garden.
Therefore, Shen Yue admired Xie Tiao's five-character poem very much and praised it: "There has been no such poem in two hundred years." After Xiao Yan became emperor, he still admired Xie Tiao's poem "Three Days". If you don’t read it, you will have bad breath.” Therefore, Xie Tiao's five-character new poetry is the banner of the "Yongming style", and Xie Tiao is the crown of the poets of the Southern Qi Dynasty. In the autumn of the twelfth year of Tang Tianbao's reign (753), Li Bai came to Xuanzhou. One of his uncles, Li Yun, who was a school secretary, was about to leave, so he wrote a popular poem "Xuanzhou Xie Zhen" to bid farewell to travelers. "Shu Shuyun, the Secretary of the School of Farewell to Loujie":
Those who abandon me will not be able to stay in yesterday's day; those who mess up my heart will have many worries in today's day.
The long winds send autumn geese thousands of miles away, and you can enjoy high-rise buildings; Penglai articles build bones, and the middle part is clear and clear.
We are all filled with joy and excitement, wishing to go up to the blue sky to embrace the bright moon; cutting off the water with a knife, the water will flow again, and raising a cup to relieve sorrow and sorrow.
If life is not satisfactory in this world, the Ming Dynasty will be ruined.