His poems are good at refining words and using allusions, paying attention to ancient meaning and grand scale, with strange strokes and particularly high syntax. They are unique from Su Shi's poems and are called "Valley Style".
Chinese Name: Valley Style
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Definition: poetic style
The representative figure is Huang Tingjian.
The style is: new thin and hard.
Gu style pays attention to three methods, namely, composition, syntax and word method.
The organization and structure of an article
Huang Tingjian, the first composition of Gu Ti, emphasized that "the article must be carefully arranged". He not only accepted the artistic experience of Ouyang Xiu and others in composing poems with ancient prose structure, but also was inspired by the popular zaju art at that time, and put forward: "Writing poems is like doing zaju, which is arranged at the beginning, and you have to clap your hands before you go on stage." No matter how long or short his poems are, they are often densely organized, with profound clues, steep turning points and endless knots. Novels such as Three Days of Storm in Tankou and Two Rhymes: Guo Hua Qiu Shan, etc.
syntax
"Guti" pays attention to syntax. The so-called syntax refers not only to the sentence structure of poetry, but also to the rules of poetic language use, involving sentence eye, balance and rhyme.
Appreciating the novelty of ancient law is Huang Tingjian's requirement for syntax. In his poetry creation, he tried a variety of syntax commonly used and rarely used by predecessors, thus creating his own unique syntax.
Word method
"Valley style" also emphasizes the word method. Pay attention to things, write hard words, refine words and make sentences, turn the stone into gold, and deliberately put aside differences. Most of them are novel metaphors, which make people alert.
In Huang's poems, if the sound of frying tea is described as "frying a car around a narrow intestine", and the lofty virtues of bamboo are described by ancient people with lofty ideals: "Cheng Ying Chu Jiu walks alone, Bo Yi Shu Qi is thin", most of them are novel and refreshing.
character introduction
Huang Tingjian (1August 9th, 045-1May 24th, 05), whose real name is Lu Zhi, is a rich man in Fenning, Hongzhou (now xiushui county, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province), a famous writer and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the founder of Jiangxi Poetry School.
Together with Du Fu, Chen, they are called "one ancestor and three schools" (Huang Tingjian is one of them). They, Chao and Qin Guan all studied under Su Shi, and they are collectively called "Su Men Four Bachelor". He was as famous as Su Shi before his death and was called "Su Huang" by the world. He is the author of Valley Ci, and Huang Tingjian's calligraphy is unique and is one of the "Song Sijia".