Since 1950s, Hanshan's poems have been introduced to the United States from the other side of the ocean. The American "Beat Generation" regarded Hanshan as an idol, and his poems were all the rage in Europe. Hanshan's poems were translated into English and French and accepted by many readers, where he won a higher reputation than Li Bai and Du Fu.
In the 20th century, Hanshan poems attracted the attention of many readers and researchers in China and the West. With the advent of globalization in 2 1 century, the globalization of literature and culture has also become an important topic. In the history of China literature, those poets who can be accepted by people with different cultural backgrounds like Hanshan should attract more attention. Let's review the general situation of Hanshan research in the past hundred years. There are several views on the life expressed in Hanshan's poems and the research on the classification of poetry content. In Hanshan and His Poems, Li Zhenjie divided the contents of Hanshan's poems into the following categories: expressing satire and ridicule on the social ugly phenomenon under the condition of the collapse of social ethics during the war; Description and chanting of mountain life; Directly promote Buddhism; Describe personal life and life experiences. In Hanshanzi and His Poems, Li Jingyi divided Hanshanzi's poems into: those reflecting rural life and farmers' ideological outlook; Reflect the contradictions and struggles between the landlord class and the peasant class; Reflect the contradictions within the ruling class, the living conditions of the lower class, and expose the unreasonable marriage phenomenon in society; Reflect Samoan life, advocate nihilism, causal reincarnation, passive seclusion, describe the bleak world of society and different customs of towns and villages. Qian Xuelie's Hanshanzi Hanshan Poems also systematically divided his poems into five categories: autobiographical poems, reclusive poems, custom poems, Taoist poems and Buddhist poems, and explained and explained all kinds of poems in detail respectively. In the Preface to Hanshan Poems written by Xiang Chu, Hanshan poems can be roughly divided into two categories, namely secular poems and religious poems, but they are not absolutely distinct. His secular poems also include lyric poems, satirical poems to persuade the vulgar, secluded mountain poems and so on. By exploring the content of Hanshanzi's poems, we can see the basic features of the society at that time and further understand the value of his poems. Han's poetry "has many works that touch real life and talk about life problems, from agricultural production and social morality to marriage and family and children's education, almost touching every corner of rural life." These poems not only make people feel fresh and lovely under the cover of the beautiful poetic style in the early Tang Dynasty, but also can't cover up its vigorous vitality and simple beauty in the era when the voice of the prosperous Tang Dynasty echoed. " The value of Hanshan's poems is largely reflected by his reflection on social reality.
In addition to the overall content classification of Hanshan's poems, some people think that Hanshan's poems are "like Confucianism and non-Confucianism, non-Confucianism and non-Confucianism; Like Tao is not Tao, non-Tao is also Tao; I like that monks are not monks, but monks are also monks; It seems very vulgar and vulgar. Therefore, it is very important to study the religious thought of Hanshan's poems. Zhang Lidao's On Taoist Thought in Hanshan Poems and Qian Xuelie's On Confucianism and Taoism in Hanshan Poems discuss the Confucianism and Taoism reflected in Hanshan Poems. Hanshan's thought is relatively more influenced by Buddhism, and most of his poems reflect Buddhism and Zen. Huang of Taiwan Province pointed out: "In the Tang Dynasty, Hanshan was the person who wrote the most Zen poems and wrote the most exquisite realm." Therefore, analyzing his poems from the perspective of Zen is also an important starting point. In the analysis of Hanshanzi's Zen poems, Qian Xuelie divided his Zen poems into two categories: Zen admonition poems and Zen Yue poems, and divided his Zen Yue poems into Zen Sutra poems, Zen reason poems, Zen enlightenment poems, Zen realm poems and Zen interesting poems, and analyzed the specific contents and ideological characteristics of all kinds of poems, and systematically classified Hanshanzi's Zen poems. In addition, He Xihong's article "On Zen in Hanshan Landscape Poetry" discusses the beauty of Zen embodied in Hanshan Landscape Poetry.
It is pointed out in the Synopsis of Sikuquanshu and Hanshan Poems that Hanshan Poems "have technical language, rate language, Zhuang language and harmonic language". It can be seen that another important aspect of Hanshan's poetry research is to explore the artistic characteristics of his poems. Li Zhenjie's Hanshan and His Poems points out that Hanshan's poems have the mystery of Zen philosophy, the freedom of form, the simplicity of feelings, the popularity of language and the versatility of comparison. In Li Jingyi's Hanshanzi and His Poems, it is pointed out that his poems "have the characteristics of popularity, simplicity, vividness and beauty of folk songs", "often use figurative techniques in folk songs", "pay special attention to the simulation of natural sounds", "short general system" and diversified styles ". The poet Wen Zhong's Hanshanzi sums up his artistic style as "satirical tension, no mercy", "exhorting the good and forbidding the evil, full of philosophy", "slang is interesting, clumsy (the source of Shen Deqian's ancient poems, for example) and intriguing", "there are many figurative sentences" and "the use of overlapping words". Hanshan, compiled and painted by Su Wen in Sages of Wuzhong, has the same poetic style as that of Wang Fanzhi 100 years ago, and is also a spoken poem. He lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but went to the deep mountains and became a hermit. Contemporary with Li Bai and Du Fu, he was listed as a star among poets in the Tang Dynasty. His poetic skills are not superb, but they can't drown out the brilliance of his personality. He was a nobody before his death, but his fame grew day by day after his death, lasting for thousands of years. Both Bai Juyi and Wang Anshi wrote poems for his poems, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian were particularly interested in his poems, and Zhu and Lu You were concerned about the publication and arrangement of his poems. He didn't formally enter any temple for a haircut, but a famous temple (Hanshan Temple) outside Suzhou in the Tang Dynasty was named after him. The earliest disseminator of his poems was a Taoist priest, and the strange novels of the Tang Dynasty made him an immortal Taoist priest. In the Song Dynasty, he was recognized by Buddhists as Manjusri Bodhisattva. His poems spread to Korea and Japan in the Yuan Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, his poems were included in The Whole Tang Poetry, which was recognized by orthodox culture. Yong Zhengdi in Qing Dynasty even named him and his friends "Two Saints of Harmony", and actually became the god of marriage and love worshipped by ordinary people. . In 1960s, he became the originator of American hippie movement. Such a legendary figure did not even leave his real name, but lived under his name-Hanshanzi.