Under the lifeless and peaceful situation, the ruling group of the Southern Song Dynasty was so numb to the fate of the country and the people that it was indifferent. Comparing oneself with "heroic" and "Liu Lang's talent". In his early years, he said in "Ten Essays on Meiqin": "Fu Li's teacher is indeed alive." In his later years, in his poem "Yong Yu Le", he praised Liu Yu's Northern Expedition as "a tiger that swallows thousands of miles with anger." Although the consequences of these battles are different, they all require taking the initiative to attack the enemy and restore the unity of the motherland. This is Xin Qiji's greatest political ambition and the main ideological content of Xin's Ci.
Xin Qiji inherited Su Shi's bold style of writing and the fighting tradition of patriotic poets in the early Southern Song Dynasty, and further expanded the subject matter of his writing, almost to the point where no matter what happened or not, no words could be included. In order to give full play to the various functions of lyrics, describing things, recording events, and discussing things, he creatively integrated the advantages of various literary and artistic forms such as poetry, prose, and poetry, enriching the expression techniques and language skills of words, thus forming a complex The unique style of Ci "can stand apart from the cut red and carved green" ("Siku Synopsis").
Xin's unique artistic achievements are first reflected in the creation of majestic and vast artistic conception. Determined by Xin Qiji's fighting experience and lofty political ambitions, his poems often express vast scenes, majestic battles, and things with strong characters. He loves the plum blossoms that are not afraid of frost and snow, but does not like the peaches and plums that cannot withstand wind and rain; he loves the upright long pines and the straight and strong bamboos, but does not like the autumn melons and frozen taro that shrink in the cold wind. He wrote that the long sword is "relying on the sky for thousands of miles", the long bridge is "thousands of feet of clear rainbow" ("Qin Yuanchun" and "Qi Si Bu Zhu"), and even the bonsai of daffodils is like "the soup is full of smoke and the waves are thousands of hectares" ("Congratulations to the Bridegroom"). 〉"Ode to Narcissus"). In his imagination, the abrupt and firm green hills were not only charming and lovely, but also galloping, like thousands of horses circling, like a giant rhinoceros rising out of the sea. "Jicuiyan" and "Qinyuanchun" and "Lingshan Qi'an Fu" etc.). In his poems, there are not only "red flags clearing the night, thousands of horses riding on the moon approaching the pass" ("Shui Diao Ge Tou" "Three Mountains Use the Rhyme of Zhao Prime Minister"), "the Han family trained hundreds of thousands, and the fleets towered" ("Shui Diao Ge Tou") In battle scenes such as "The Boat Trip to Yangzhou, Yun with Yang Jiweng and Zhou Xianxian"), even facing the gulls by the water, the wine glass in front of you, and the pine trees blocking the road, you will also issue military orders like restraints; see the red and white flowers. , I will also think of the training of female soldiers in the Wu Palace; when I hear the sound of chess outside in the quiet small window, I will also think of the breakthrough of the heavy siege (Note: "Nian Nujiao" "White Peony, and the Rhyme of Fan Kuo": "Yes The flowers are so similar, they look like the first disciples of the Wu Palace, surrounded by red arrays. "Also from "Xin He Ye" (Zai He Qian Yun): "The people in the small window are quiet, and the sound of chess sounds like resolving a heavy siege." These vivid and exaggerated descriptions and imaginations constitute the characteristics of Xin's bold style. Compared with Su Shi, Xin's poems are more vivid and abrupt. Sometimes the writing is full of ink and the momentum is flying. This is an artistic conception that is not found in Su Shi's poems. And because he has been in the period of the North-South division and was often squeezed and attacked by the compromise and capitulation faction, it is impossible for Xin Ci to have the open and free expression of Su Shi.
Secondly, it is reflected in Bixing’s sustenance method. Since Xin Qiji was a "returned" soldier from the north (Note: The Southern Song Dynasty discriminated against those who returned from the north and called them "reformed people"), his political ambition to restore the Central Plains and unify China was inconsistent with the secret settlement of the small people in the south of the Yangtze River. The imperial court was incompatible with him, and his lonely political position and frequently slandered life experience warned him not to make any excuses. This forced him to sometimes resort to subtle and tortuous metaphorical techniques to express his unrelenting struggle. Spirit. This part of the poem sometimes expresses the love between children and the affairs of kings and ministers; in the fragrance and pathos, it reveals an air of uprightness and injustice. It is like a clear spring that surges through a gap in a stream that has been flowing for thousands of miles, or like a flash of lightning when the clouds are thick and there is no rain, revealing the news that this century-old building that is leaning to collapse will collapse in the storm. The following poem "Moyuer", which he wrote when he transferred from Hubei to Hunan, is a more representative work in this regard.
When Xin Qiji came to poetry, he began to use a large number of allusions, so some predecessors thought that he "lost his book bag". The so-called "book bag dropping" refers to the misuse of book materials to show off one's knowledge. Some of Xin Qiji's works, such as choosing ancient stories with the same surname as a friend to praise him, or collecting scriptures in their entirety, all reflect this habit of feudal literati. However, it must be noted that most of the allusions used in Xin's poems are to refer to the past and present, as shown in the poems such as "Yong Yu Le" and "Shui Long Yin". This is actually inconsistent with his metaphor and sustenance techniques. There are similarities.
The above two aspects of artistic achievements express the writer's patriotic enthusiasm, the sharp contradiction between political ideals and ugly reality, and at the same time form the romantic artistic characteristics of Xin Ci.