Brief introduction of immortal poems

Taoist literature, Taoist poetry, Taoist poetry, Taoist prose, Taoist novels, Taoist operas and other story-telling couplets, nursery rhymes and fairy poems are all a form of Taoist poetry. Original meaning, this refers to a poem praising the feelings of wandering immortals and wanderers. Its genre is mostly five words, with ten, twelve or sixteen sentences. As for the types of immortals' poems, predecessors have made various divisions: either from the author's ideological tendency, immortals' poems are based on the rich and the poor and are variants of immortals' poems; Or from the form of expression, the author swims with immortals as the ancient body, the author is not included, and only immortals swim with themselves as the close body.

Poems about immortals originated from songs and poems before the Han Dynasty. As early as "Songs of the South", there was already a chapter describing the fairy's gentle support for the sky. For example, the article "Journey" poeticizes the ancient fairy tale and expresses the carefree world and inner worries through the description of "Journey", which has taken shape. In the Qin Dynasty, the first emperor was a good immortal, who once "made doctors travel around the world, wrote poems for immortals and real people, and asked musicians to sing and string for them". The appearance of poems about immortals reflected the strong ethos of seeking immortals at that time. Later, there were also works reflecting the immortal thoughts in the Han Yuefu, such as In and Out in the Daylight and Tianma in the Song of the Nineteen Suburbs Temple, all of which expressed the ideal of traveling in space.

However, as a mature genre, the poems about immortals became popular after the Han Dynasty. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, not only Taoist priests wrote poems about immortals, but also literati wrote poems about immortals, which became a poetic style of a generation. Therefore, the first anthology of literary works in China, Selected Works compiled by Xiao Tong in Liang Dynasty, listed "wandering immortals" as one of the literary genres. In Wen Xin Diao Long, Liu Xie made a special comment on You Xian's poems, while in Shi Pin, Zhong Rong made a more detailed comment on the poetic style of Guo Pu and others. After Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, although the poems about immortals were not as prosperous as before, there were still many people who wrote such poems. People like Bai Juyi and Li He still have the legacy of wandering immortals.

Poems about immortals often show a strong desire to transcend the limitations of secular society in thought; In art, you xian's poems are imaginative and good at using various rhetorical devices such as exaggeration, personification and symbol. The use of Taoist immortal allusions makes the poems about immortals more romantic.