"Shangguanyi" refers to the poet Shangguanyi.
"Shangguan style" is the first poetry style named after an individual in the history of poetry in the Tang Dynasty. Refers to the court poetry style represented by Shangguan Yi during the Longshuo reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty. The themes are mainly Fenghe, Yingzhi, and chanting things, and the content is vague. It attaches great importance to the formal skills of poetry and pursues the rhetorical beauty of poetry.
The poems composed by Shangguan Yi during the Zhenguan period are outstanding for their precise composition and clear and graceful scenery. For example, in "Early Spring Guilin Palace Yingzhi", the couplet "The scenery is exposed and the sky above the snowflakes is blue" reflects the poet's outstanding scenery description skills and his ability to create a bright and vivid poetic environment.
The significance and influence of Shangguan Yi
Shangguanyi represented the formalist tendency of the court poets at that time and contributed to the shaping of rhythmic poetry. It provides a new paradigm for poetry to become metrical, and is a bridge from the new-style poetry since Qi and Liang Dynasties to the rhythmic poetry of Shen and Song Dynasties. In the history of the development of Tang poetry, it is inherited from Yang Shidao, Li Baiyao and Yu Shinan.
Shangguanyi's innovation in the poetry system is mainly in the delicacy and exquisiteness of the objects and images. With his highly proficient skills, he diluted the relief and carvings of Qi and Liang poetry. However, the subject matter and content of the poem are still limited to the scope of chanting things that should be produced in court literature, and lack the generosity, passion and heroic spirit.