Yu Xin portrait
It can be said that Yu Xin's masterpiece has a lot to do with his personal experience. Before I went to the Western Wei Dynasty, I was good at palace poems. Most of his poems are elegant in style, with more pornographic works and empty content. They are basically pleasing works, such as dancing and showing them to my wife. In addition to these works, there are also some sentences about scenery handed down, such as: shower with lotus wind and birds. From this sentence, we can easily see that Yu Xin is a very observant person, and his description is also quite detailed. His masterpiece is the six-character poem "Dancing Mei Niang", which should also be the work of the Southern Dynasties. This poem describes a girl who loves beauty and cherishes the feeling of youth. It seems sad, but it is lively, naughty and catchy to read.
Yu Xin stayed in Chang 'an after completing his mission, which was extremely painful for Yu Xin. Therefore, his writing style has undergone profound changes. His "Twenty-seven Poems" profoundly reflected his life and feelings in his later years, and described his yearning for his old country quite richly. Yu Xin's representative works have been preserved to this day, including Yu Kai Fu Ji.
Features of Yu Xin's Ci Fu Yu Xin was a famous writer, poet, parallel prose writer and ci fu writer in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The characteristics of Yu Xin's Ci and Fu are the essence of North and South literature. His works are the key works of North-South integration and North-South cultural exchange. Early works are different from later works, which is also related to his life experience.
Yu Xin's Portrait of Writing
The characteristics of Yu Xin's Ci and Fu should be divided into two stages. When he was in the south, his works were mostly palace-style, and his early works were the representatives of palace-style literature. Most of his later works were parallel prose, which he pushed to the peak. Although Yu Xin's ci and fu have made great contributions to the development of the north, its characteristics have also been commented by theorists of past dynasties. From the Sui Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty and even to the Qing Dynasty, many scholars raised objections to his ci and fu.
Yu Xin was born in Xinye, Nanyang, and the times were turbulent. He personally experienced the whole process of the Liang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and then to extinction. From the gorgeous life in the palace to the turbulent running around and seeing one's country destroyed with one's own eyes, it is impossible for such an experience not to be abandoned by a gifted scholar with good literary accomplishment. Therefore, it is natural that the characteristics of Yu Xin's ci and fu are changeable.
Since his youth, Yu Xin, with his father Yu Jianwu's position, brilliant literary talent and extraordinary wisdom, has been able to enter and leave the Palace and the Forbidden City, and has a reputation of dominating the literary world. It can be said that his early works are all about happiness. However, the situation is turbulent, and the pain of national subjugation that he personally experienced is unknown. After that, he was detained in the north and was reused by the emperor. Since then, his literary ci has also changed. From his ci and fu, we can see his deep nostalgia for the motherland and incomparable deep feelings.