Yongjia Siling refers to the school of China poetry in the mid-Southern Song Dynasty, which represents a tendency of poetry creation in the late Southern Song Dynasty. The Four Spirits of Yongjia were four poets who grew up in Yongjia, Zhejiang (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang) at that time: Zhao Xu, Xu Qian, Weng Juan and Zhao Shixiu. In the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty, they formed a school of poetry in China, representing a tendency of poetry creation in the late Southern Song Dynasty.
Because they share the same interests, their poems and styles are similar, and their works are all laws of the Tang Dynasty. In the late Tang Dynasty, Jia Dao and Yao were the laws, so they were called Tang style with the word "Ling", while Wenzhou was always Yongjia County, so they were called "Yongjia Four Spirits".
When the "Four Spirits" appeared, the influence of Jiangxi Poetry School had gradually weakened. Subjectively, the "Four Spirits" also want to break the barriers of Jiangxi Poetry School, learn from Jia Yao and use less classics. , all have the intention of running counter to Jiangxi poetry school.
"Yongjia Four Spirits" is a unique school of poetry in the Southern Song Dynasty. For predecessors, it reformed Jiangxi Poetry School and got rid of its disadvantages. Yes, later, it started the Jianghu Poetry School, and then innovated and developed. The development of Song poetry is summarized as "four changes" in the preface to the Chronology of Song Poetry, and the third change is from "four masters" such as Lu You to "Yongjia Four Spirits".
The poems of "Four Spirits" are not "chilling and lamenting", nor are they far away from social reality, but only reveal "narrow psychology". It should have a high position in the history of poetry in Song Dynasty. The evaluation of its cognitive value and aesthetic value, especially its active use of the world, needs to break through the long-standing thinking mode and increase the awareness of pluralism and tolerance.