Explanation of the term "Three Styles in the Early Song Dynasty": The poetry world in the early Song Dynasty inherited the poetry style of the late Tang and Five Dynasties and formed three poetry schools, which are called "Three Styles in the Early Song Dynasty": "Bai Style" and "Xikun Style" , "Late Tang style".
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The poetry circle in the early Song Dynasty inherited the late Tang and Five Dynasties styles, and there is the so-called three-body theory in the early Song Dynasty. One is represented by some dignitaries at that time, such as Xu Xuan, Li Fang, etc., with Bai Juyi as his teacher. The poetry style is simple and popular, which is the mainstream poetry at that time. This is white-style poetry.
Represented by Yang Yi, Liu Jun, and Qian Weiyan who came later, and Li Shangyin as their teacher, their rhetoric was gorgeous and they paid attention to the use of allusions. They were the mainstream of poetry after the Bai Ti. "Collection" got its name, this is Xikun style.
First, represented by hermits such as Wei Ye and Lin Bu, with Jia Dao and Yao He as their teachers, they mostly used line drawing techniques to write about hermit life, with a pure and bitter poetic style, which is the style of the late Tang Dynasty. The three-style poems in the early Song Dynasty are far away from politics and society in content, and most of them are modern-style poems in form.
Li Fang and Xu Xuan—learned "Yuan Bai Ti" and sang in harmony with each other. What a leisurely work, simple and elegant. Wu Mengfu said: "They imitated Bai Juyi and pretended to be concerned about the country and the people, but they lost Bai's tradition of reflecting reality, so they did not gain strength and were even passed down as a joke. ("Overview of the Eight Classical Classics of the Tang and Song Dynasties")
Wang Yucheng studied Bai Juyi's allegorical poems and also studied Du Fu, becoming the most accomplished among the "Bai style" poets. Wang Yucheng studied Du Fu and made insightful comments on Du Fu. Zhen focuses on Du Fu's collection, which "captures all the styles of ancient and modern times, and combines everyone's unique skills." Wang Yucheng attaches great importance to Du Fu's innovation: "Zimei Collection opens up the world of poetry"
Early Northern Song Dynasty. Most of the poems are frivolous and flashy and lack practical significance. Wang Yucheng tried his best to restore this trend. For example, some of Wang Yucheng's poems are both Du and Bai styles; some of them are already Song poems. The clues of argumentation and prose culture
The representative of "Nine Monks" is Hui Chong, who is characterized by "wind, flowers, snow and moon, small moans", separated from wind, flowers, snow, moon and water. , stone, mountain, bamboo and other words, even a poem cannot be written.
("June 1 Poetry Talk")