These four people all belong to the Yip family.
"Four Spirits of Yongjia" refers to four poets in Yongjia area: Zhao Xu, Ji Xu, Zhao Shixiu and Weng Juan. These four people all belong to the Yip family.
The Four Spirits of Yongjia refer to four poets who grew up in Yongjia, Zhejiang (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang) at that time-Zhao Xu, Xu Qian, Weng Juan and Zhao Shixiu. They formed the China school of poetry in the mid-Southern Song Dynasty, which represented a tendency of poetry creation in the late Southern Song Dynasty. Because they share the same interests, their poems and styles are similar, and their works are all laws of the Tang Dynasty. In the late Tang Dynasty, Jia Dao and Yao were the laws, so they were called Tang style with the word "Ling", while Wenzhou was always Yongjia County, so they were called "Yongjia Four Spirits".
Representative works include "Quzhou Stone Temple" and "Winter Book". Yongjia Siling is a school of poetry in the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, which represents a tendency of poetry creation in the late Southern Song Dynasty.
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The school of poetry in China in the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty represents a tendency of poetry creation in the late Southern Song Dynasty. The Four Spirits of Yongjia refers to four poets who grew up in Yongjia (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang): Zhao Xu (word), Ji Xu (word Lingyuan), Zhao Shixiu (word Lingxiu) and Weng Juan (word Lingshu). Because they all come from the gate of Ye Shi of Yongjia school, and their words or numbers all have the word "spirit", they are called Yongjia Four Spirits. Of these four people, Zhao Xu and Weng Juan are cloth-clad, while Ji Xu and Zhao Shixiu have been junior officials.
Their poetic style inherited the poetic style of the late Tang Dynasty, and they chose the path of the late Tang poets Jia Dao and Yao He, demanding to write wild, carefree and boring with fresh and engraved words. The poetic style is characterized by inheriting the traditions of landscape poets and pastoral poets, and being satisfied with the leisure life of arrogant pastoral and sentimental spring. In art, he can also deliberately seek work, avoid using allusions, and still paint in a simple way, ignoring the ancient style and emphasizing the modern style, especially the five laws.
It even requires that the number of words in the whole poem should not exceed 40 words. To a great extent, it corrected the habit of Jiangxi poets to take learning as poetry. Their achievements were extremely limited, but they were widely reflected in the poetry circles at that time.