However, Li Shangyin repeatedly stated in his poems that he was actually a distant imperial clan, but it was useless. Born in the late Tang Dynasty, Li Shangyin was far from royalty.
Li Shangyin, a native of Hanoi, Huaizhou (now Qinyang, Henan), went to Zhejiang with his father Li Si when he was three years old, but when Li Shangyin was less than ten years old, Li Si died, so Li Shangyin had to go back to his hometown with his mother and live a poor life.
Without his father's support, Li Shangyin began to stand on his own feet in his teens. Of course, he doesn't have the strength to do manual work, but for him, as long as he can get a pen, the way to subsidize his family is to copy books. It is precisely because of this that Li Shangyin writes a good hand, and his talent in poetry is also inseparable from this experience.
Li Shangyin's official career.
The poems of poets in the Tang Dynasty are actually a portrayal of personal life experiences. From their poems, we can read their lives. Perhaps we can also think that it is difficult to write touching words without twists and turns, even now.
A person's writing style and experience are closely related, and Li Shangyin is no exception. Reading Li Shangyin's poems will make people cry, which also proves that his life is tortuous. Learning to be an official is excellent, and Li Shangyin is also actively preparing to be an official. But in the Tang Dynasty, when there was no one behind, it was extremely difficult to be an official.
In the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty, it was very common for dignitaries to help each other and recruit a large number of candidates from the upper-level network. Ling Hu-mao, a classmate of Li Shangyin's, had already won the Jinshi by virtue of his father's influence, but Li Shangyin was admitted to the Jinshi through his own efforts.
But at this time, Li Shangyin's embarrassing career has just begun, because he is caught in it? Niu Li's inner-party struggle? Vortex, that is, the struggle between Niu Party led by Niu Senru and Li Zongmin and Li Party led by Li Deyu and Qin Zheng, is a struggle between the two factions. Whether you can advance depends on whether you can stand on the right team, but Li Shangyin's embarrassment is that he can't stand on a team clearly.
Why do you say that? This is because Li Shangyin was taken care of by Ling Huchu during his early study tour. It can be said that Linghu Chu is his teacher, and Linghu Chu belongs to the Niu Party, while Wang Maoyuan, Li Shangyin's father-in-law, befriends Li Deyu and naturally belongs to the Li Party. That's great. Li Shangyin became between the two factions? Chicken ribs? .
It is precisely because Li Shangyin could not extricate himself from the whirlpool of party and government that he finally experienced ups and downs in his official career and failed to find his own bright spot. Fortunately, his experience made him make great achievements in poetry, such as his Cicada.
The fourth sentence of cicada.
Li Shangyin's Cicada is a poem that many people are not familiar with, but its literary evaluation is not low at all, and Zhu Yizun of A Qing Dynasty praised it. Is chanting the best? , the fourth sentence in the poem was also praised as a divine sentence by Liang Qian, and this poem was written like this:
The pure heart is hungry because of this, and you sing in vain all night. Oh, this last broken breath, in the green indifferent trees! . Yes, I am like a driftwood. I have made my garden full of weeds. I thank you for your sincere advice and live a pure life like you.
This poem is actually a comparison between Li Shangyin and Cicada. He thinks that the cicada perches on a high book, but it's just in vain. It can't hear the loud chirping of trees. Li Shangyin, like this cicada, has been pursuing career advancement all his life, but he has ups and downs and can't be really reused.
However, Li Shangyin was not defeated by reality. In the face of adversity, he still saw hope from cicada, and reminded himself with cicada's loud cry that he must always maintain his inner nobility.
What about the last sentence? I appreciate your advice and live a pure life like you? It is called the divine sentence because it has shifted from reciting things to one's own aspirations. This writing is the most profound sublimation of a poem, so it makes sense to be called a divine sentence.
Li Shangyin was one of the few poets who deliberately pursued the beauty of poetry in the Tang Dynasty. He is good at poetry writing, and his poems are of high literary value and catchy to read. Therefore, although Li Shangyin's seven-character quatrains look very long, they are easy to recite, which is also the reason.
In addition, Li Shangyin's poetry is novel in conception and profound in style, which makes many people admire this frustrated late Tang poet from the bottom of their hearts. As "A Course in the History of China Literature" said: Li Shangyin is good at integrating a hundred schools of thought into one furnace, so he can form his own family.