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Li Shangyin, named Yishan, was born in Yuxi and Fan Nansheng. Together with Du Mu, together with Wen, it is called Wen Li. He was originally from Hanoi, Huaizhou, and later moved to Xingyang with his ancestors as a poet in the late Tang Dynasty.
Li Shangyin lost his father when he was a child and returned to his hometown with his mother, leading a poor life. At the age of sixteen, he was famous for being good at ancient Chinese. Yamato moved to Luoyang in three years and got to know Ling Huchu and other seniors. Niu Dang let Ling Huchu appreciate his literary talent, personally teach him today's genre and performance knowledge, and give him financial support. Later, he was hired into the stage, and he was admitted to the Jinshi in the second year of his career before he re-entered the stage of Linghu Chu. After Ling Huchu died, he joined the stage of Wang Maoyuan, Li Dangjing's former ambassador, and soon married Wang Nv.
Since then, he has fallen into the whirlpool of the struggle between Niu and Li, and was regarded as ungrateful by Niu. The following year, I wanted to take an examination of the beautiful words, and I was admitted and then brushed them off. In two years, Huichang was awarded provincial orthography as a secretary. After Xuanzong ascended the throne, Niu Dang was in power. He immediately gave up his position in Beijing and went to Guihai with Li Dang Zheng Ya. In the following ten years, they all drifted around, served as aides and began to believe in Buddhism. In the twelfth year of Dazhong, he retired to his hometown due to illness and died in Zhengzhou.
Summary of achievements:
There are about 600 poems handed down by Li Shangyin, among which the themes of current politics are directly touched, accounting for a considerable proportion. Li Shangyin's epic has made great achievements. They are by no means morbid moans reflecting past love, and they are different from those poems written by predecessors. Instead, it takes history as a mirror, Chen's politics as a mirror, and the criticism of the times as a supplement. Singing history has become a special form of political poetry.
Untitled poetry is Li Shangyin's unique creation. Most of them take the lovesickness of men and women as the theme, with faint artistic conception, full of twists and turns of feelings, beautiful words, pleasant tone, which can be dense and dense, and makes people sad to read.
Due to his childhood environment and education, Li Shangyin's world outlook basically belongs to the Confucian system, and he has a positive attitude towards life and is eager to make a difference. At the same time, he was able to think independently, dismissing the preaching that learning the Tao must seek the ancients, because literature must learn the ancients, and even boldly suggested that Confucius had something beyond morality and righteousness.
Influence of later generations:
Although the social significance of Li Shangyin's poems is not as good as that of Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi, Li Shangyin is the most influential poet in later generations, because there are more people who like Li Shangyin's poems than Du Li and Bai Juyi. Li Shangyin's poems, especially his love poems, have a great influence on later generations, from Han Wo and others in the late Tang Dynasty to Kunxi poets in the early Song Dynasty to Huang Jingren and Gong Zizhen in the Qing Dynasty.