Li Shangyin is generally regarded as the most outstanding poet in the late Tang Dynasty. His poetic style is deeply influenced by Li He, and his syntax, composition and structure are all influenced by Du Fu and Han Yu. [6] Many critics believe that among the outstanding poets in the Tang Dynasty, his importance is second only to Du Fu, Li Bai, Wang Wei and others. As far as the uniqueness of poetic style is concerned, he is not inferior to any poet. However, there are relatively many allusions, which are obscure. Those who appreciate Li Shangyin's poems and those who criticize him are all aimed at his distinctive personal style. Many poets in later generations imitated Li Shangyin's style, but none of them were recognized. 2 Li Shangyin's Poems According to the collation and research of Liu Xueyan and Yu Shucheng [7], there are 594 poems handed down from ancient times by Li Shangyin, of which 38 1 basically determines the writing time, and 2 13 poems cannot be classified as specific years. In addition, there are more than a dozen poems suspected to be Li Shangyin's, but the evidence is insufficient. Judging from the theme of epic poems, Li Shangyin's epic poems can be divided into several categories: political and historical. As an intellectual who cares about politics, Li Shangyin wrote a lot of poems in this field, and about 100 poems have been handed down. Among them, Bai Yun in the Western Suburb, Shi Dong Sui and Two Feelings are more important works. Li Shangyin's early political poems were mostly based on Chen's current situation, and their harsh tone of grief and indignation and sense of self-expectation reflected his mentality at that time. In poems about political and social contents, it is a feature of Li Shangyin's poems to borrow historical themes to reflect his views on contemporary society. Fu Hou, two poems of Northern Qi Dynasty, Mao Ling, etc. It is a representative. Express one's feelings and recite things. Li Shangyin's career was bumpy all his life, and his ambition could not be realized, so he used poetry to dispel his depression and anxiety. Ding An Tie Tower, In Spring, Happy Garden and Du Gongbu in the Middle of Shu are the most popular songs. It is worth noting that many seven-character poems in this kind of works are considered as important successors of Du Fu's poetic style. Emotional poetry. The works that chant inner feelings, including most untitled poems, are the most distinctive parts of Li Shangyin's poems, and they are also the most concerned parts of later generations. Jinse, Poems of Yantai Mountain, Three Poems by Bi Cheng, Return to the Temple of Our Lady, etc. , has always maintained a style similar to untitled poetry. Five Willow Branches, Sending Friends to the North on a Rainy Night, Mourning for the Past and Going East, Three Passes of Snow, etc. It embodies the artistic conception of another style of Li Shangyin's emotional poems. Socializing and communicating. Among Li Shangyin's poems used for communication, several poems addressed to Hu Ling Mao (seeing off to fill a vacancy, sending a message to Secretary Ling Huchong, paying for a doctor, sending him to be a bachelor, dreaming of being a bachelor, and Hu Ling Scheeren saying that the drama on the moon last night was a gift) are particularly eye-catching, which provides an explanation for his relationship with Hu Ling Mao. Li Shangyin: Jin Se Shi Li absorbed the strengths of predecessors, inherited the depression and frustration of Du Fu's seven laws, integrated the splendor and wealth of Qi Liang's poems, and imitated the ghostly fantasy of Li He's poems, forming his affectionate, lingering, aesthetic and delicate style. Shi Li is also good at using allusions and appropriate historical analogies to express hidden and unspeakable meanings.
Shi Zhecun believes that although the social significance of Li Shangyin's poems is not as good as that of Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi, Li Shangyin has the greatest influence on later generations, because there are more people who like Li Shangyin's poems than Li, Du Fu and Bai Juyi. Among the 300 Tang poems edited by Sun Zhu in the Qing Dynasty, 22 poems by Li Shangyin were included, ranking fourth after Du Fu (38 poems), Wang Wei (29 poems) and Li Bai (27 poems). This anthology of Tang poems is a household name in China, from which we can see Li Shangyin's great influence on ordinary people. In the late Tang Dynasty, Han Wo, Wu Rong, Tang and others began to consciously learn Li Shangyin's poetic style. In the Song Dynasty, more poets studied Li Shangyin. According to Ye Xie, "There were seven unique poets in the Song Dynasty, probably/kloc-0 studied Du Fu in 1967 and/kloc-0 studied Li Shangyin in 1934." (Original Poetry) In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Yang Yi, Qian and other clansmen, Li Shangyin, often sang in harmony with each other, pursuing gorgeous rhetoric and neat antithesis, and published a collection of Kunxi Appreciation, which was called Titi. It was quite influential at that time. In addition, Wang Anshi also spoke highly of Li Shangyin, thinking that some of his poems were "unbearable for Lao Du" (Cai Kuanfu's poems). Wang Anshi's own poetic style is also obviously influenced by Li Shangyin. Poets in the Ming Dynasty were all influenced by Li Shangyin from The First Seven Sons to Qian and Wu. People who like to write erotic poems in Qing Dynasty specialize in Li Shangyin's untitled poems, such as Wang Yanhong's Doubt Clouds and Rain. Romantic poetry in the novels of Yuanyang Butterfly School in the Republic of China was also influenced by him. Regarding the influence of Li Shangyin on later generations, we can refer to the influence of Wu Diaogong in the Northern Song Dynasty on poetry, Li Shangyin's Beautiful Sunset in the Qing Dynasty, the influence on Su poetry, the influence on the formation of Li Shangyin's poetry, and the graceful and restrained poems of Liu Xueyan in the Tang and Song Dynasties.