Poetry of the late Tang Dynasty.
Because the four spirits of Yongjia have similar purposes and interests, similar poetry styles, and the style of writing is Tang Dynasty, they are specifically based on Jia Dao and Yao He in the late Tang Dynasty. They are called Tang style, and the font names all have "ling" in them. Wenzhou was called Yongjia County in ancient times, so it was called the "Four Spirits of Yongjia".
The poetry style that Yongjia Siling specializes in is Wulu.
Yongjia Siling refers to the poetry genre in the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty in China and represents a tendency in poetry creation in the late Southern Song Dynasty. The Yongjia Silings were four poets who grew up in Yongjia, Zhejiang (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang) at that time: Xu Zhao, Xu Ji, Weng Juan, and Zhao Shixiu. They formed a poetry school in the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty in China and represented a trend in poetry creation in the late Southern Song Dynasty.
Because they have similar purposes and similar poetic styles, the style of writing is Tang Dynasty style, which is specifically based on Jia Dao and Yao He in the late Tang Dynasty. It is called Tang style, and the font names all contain the word "ling". Wenzhou was called Yongjia County in ancient times, so it was called the "Four Spirits of Yongjia".
When the "Four Spirits" appeared, the influence of Jiangxi Poetry School had gradually weakened. The "Four Spirits" also subjectively wanted to break the barriers of the Jiangxi Poetry School, learn from Jia Yao, use less dian, etc., which all contained intentions that ran counter to the Jiangxi Poetry School.
The "Yongjia Four Spirits" is a unique poetry school in the poetry world of the Southern Song Dynasty. For its predecessors, it transformed the Jiangxi Poetry School and eliminated its shortcomings; for later generations, it launched the Jianghu Poetry School and innovated and developed it again. Quan Zuwang summarized the development of Song poetry into "four changes" in the "Preface to "Chronicles of Song Poetry", from Lu You and other "Four Zhongxing Masters" to "Yongjia Four Spirits" as the third change.
The poems of "Four Spirits" are not "chilling cicadas", nor are they far away from social reality and only reveal "narrow psychology". It should have a higher status in the history of Song Dynasty poetry. The evaluation of its cognitive value and aesthetic value, especially the evaluation of its positive use of the world, needs to break through the long-standing thinking stereotypes and have more awareness of diversity and tolerance. .