In the old days, the author of the poem Wang Xietang and Qian Yan flew into the homes of ordinary people was Liu Yuxi.
Brief introduction of Liu Yuxi:
Liu Yuxi (772-842), a writer and philosopher in Tang Dynasty, was born in Luoyang, claiming that his family was born in Xingyang, and he was born in Zhongshan. The first is Zhongshan Jing Wang Liu Sheng. Known as a "poet".
Liu Yuxi's early experience:
Liu Yuxi's ancestors were Liu Sheng, son of Lady Jia, Emperor Jing of Han Dynasty, and Liu Liang, the seventh ancestor. He served as a regular servant in Jizhou in the Northern Dynasties and moved to Luoyang with Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Father Liu Xu moved his family to the east to live in Jiaxing (now Zhejiang) because of avoiding the rebellion in Anshi.
His father and ancestors were small bureaucrats. His father Liu Xu was an official in Jiangnan, where Liu Yuxi spent his teenage years. He began to learn Confucian classics and compose poems at an early age. He was smart and diligent, and he was once influenced by the famous poems at that time.
Liu Yuxi's life in exile:
Liu Yuxi was exiled in Langzhou for nearly ten years. In the meantime, he created a lot of fable poems, expressed his great dissatisfaction with the powerful people of the current dynasty, and wrote many fu poems to express his unwilling ambition. Due to contact with local folk songs, he absorbed nutrition from them, and his poetry creation showed some new characteristics.
Features of Liu Yuxi's poetic style:
1. Natural and meaningful poetic style:
Liu Yuxi devoted his whole life to literary creation, leaving a valuable legacy for China's cultural treasure house. Liu Yuxi respects the plain and natural writing style. He likes to find peace and harmony from simplicity, which conforms to the elegant and distant charm and has a mind indifferent to fame and fortune.
Second, the theory of "imagery":
Liu Yuxi said in "Dong Shi Wuling Ji Ji": "What is the meaning of a poet's article? Righteousness is lost, so it is difficult to be able to do it; The environment is born outside the image, so it is fine but not harmonious. " In his view, if literati want to express their feelings through articles, poetry is the essence of all articles, and its language is concise, containing rich scenes and far-reaching significance.
Third, the expression of optimistic and broad-minded thoughts:
He is resolute and full of heroic spirit. During the years of living in exile, he felt depressed and sang songs of mourning for lonely ministers. But he never despaired, and he has the soul of a fighter.