The official conclusion is that Lu You wrote more than 9,000 poems.
Lu You: He said that he wrote "ten thousand poems in sixty years", and more than 9,300 poems still exist today.
His poems can be roughly divided into three periods:
The first period is from adolescence to middle age (46 years old). It is the longest period but has the fewest surviving works, about 200 poems. Lu You deleted and eliminated his early works of "but he wanted to work hard".
The second period was between the ages of 46 and 54, and he composed more than 2,400 poems. During this period, due to his deep involvement in military life, his poetry style became He was bold and magnificent, and his patriotic thoughts were further enhanced. The maturity and richness of his poetry creation during this period established his lofty status as a literary master of the generation.
In the third period, he lived in seclusion in his hometown until his death, with 6,500 existing poems. The reason for the large number is that he had no time to eliminate them in his later years. During this period, he had more contact with farmers, coupled with the ups and downs of the officialdom and his old age, so the style changed to a pastoral style that is clear and distant. And the emotion of desolate life.~