Palace-style poems, as the name implies, are poems from the court. Palace literature and art generally refer to elegant and complete sounds, but most of the "Palace-style poems" come from folk Yuefu in the Southern Dynasties. The so-called "words stop at frivolity, and you can't recite Sang Zhong". But why is the royal family in Xiao Liang interested in folk literature and art? It turns out that most of the founding fathers of the Southern Dynasties were generals who started with military achievements, with low academic qualifications and vulgar taste. The turmoil of the times and the ups and downs of identity make their feelings about life more impermanent than ordinary people, so the idea of eating, drinking and having fun in time is extremely strong, and their greed for extravagant women is often expressed in a direct form. The appearance of palace poems is related to the folk culture of the Southern Dynasties. During the Southern Dynasties, commerce was very prosperous, and a large number of Qin Lou officials and prostitutes appeared in the cities, which constituted the unique commercial atmosphere of the Southern Dynasties culture. The low-quality Qi-Liang ruling group hit it off. In the history of China literature, folk literature and art have always been valued by rulers, unlike some people who take it for granted that rulers have always despised folk literature and art.
In fact, this poetic style has sprouted from Liang Wudi, Wu Yun, He Xun and Liu Xiaozhuo. The main authors of palace poems are Xiao Gang and some scholars gathered around them, such as Xu? , Yu Xin, Xu Ling, etc. , Chen, and his attache literati can also be classified into this category.
The criticism of palace poems has always been that many palace poems pay attention to women's life and posture. In fact, the content of palace poems is not limited to women's lives, but there are also some lyric works that praise things. Even when writing about women's lives, only a few of them have low styles. Generally speaking, the artistic conception of palace poems is frivolous and the poetic style is soft. In fact, Xiao Gang and Xiao Yi, known as court poets, also wrote many beautiful and readable poems.
Judging from the history of poetry development, palace poetry plays two roles. On the one hand, the poems in the early Sui and Tang Dynasties were weak and influenced to some extent; On the other hand, it is often more formal. According to some scholars' statistics, about 40% of palace poems conform to the rhythm of poetry; The number of basic matches is particularly large. This shows that palace poems have an important role in promoting the later forms of regular poems. As for its many allusions and gorgeous rhetoric, it also has a certain positive effect on later generations. For example, the poems of Li He and Li Shangyin in the Tang Dynasty obviously absorbed some techniques of palace poetry.
Xiao Gang, a representative figure, wrote as a prince and emperor and advocated this poetic style, which influenced the poetic style of a generation. For example, Biography says: "Emperor (Xiao Gang) wrote elegant poems, and its preface said:' Yu wrote poems at the age of seven, and he was tireless for a long time.' But it was a light injury. It was the palace. "
Xu Shuo, another representative figure of palace poems besides Xiao Gang, has only five palace poems, four of which are poems about objects, and his artistic conception and style are completely consistent with Xiao Gang's. The works of other palace poets are generally the same, and they do not lose their lightness. This ethos has always influenced the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty.