The poetic styles of the four masters are also varied, some are simple and fresh, some are magnificent, some are elaborate, some are colorful, and each has its own merits, just as Lu Shiyong summarized in "A General Theory of Poetic Circumstances": "Wang Bo Gao Hua Yang Jiongfu, thick neighbors, easy to be in Wang Tan." Compared with the palace poems since the Qi and Liang Dynasties, they have a common feature, that is, the poetic style began to turn to vigorous and fresh. A positive and healthy thought and emotion replaced the vulgar and boring thought tendency of expressing emotion and melody in palace poems. The poems of the four heroes are also dominated by young people's heroic hugs, shining with positive and enterprising ideal spirit and optimistic and cheerful romantic feelings. They are full of vigor and spirits. Even if they are depressed and miserable, it is a lament of hero's frustration, not mediocre despair. Therefore, they have the characteristics of "boldness of vision", "grandeur" and "magnanimity", and have started the ambition of eliminating "official style". "Official style" Wang Bo said to himself, "If a husband is open-minded, he can't vent his anger unless he is in the country, and he can't vent his feelings unless he is depressed." (Preface to Sun Family Banquet on a Spring Moon) This kind of injustice is different from the "feeling of being a stranger" of Meng Jiao and others after the middle Tang Dynasty, nor is it a humiliating sigh, but it is vigorous and impactful. They believe that poetry is the most appropriate form to express personal feelings. The enterprising spirit and injustice are expressed in poetry, forming a "strong feeling." Compared with the dazzling and indifferent court poems, this poem is full of vitality. It restores the vitality of those poems that have been extinct for a long time, showing touching power and "vigorous rhythm". (2) This lively and vigorous vitality is the spiritual essence of the "strength of character" put forward by the four great masters. They also learned from the exquisite works of poetic language since the Six Dynasties, with bright colors and harmonious melody, thus forming a vigorous, vigorous and feminine overall artistic style. If Qi Liang's poetic style is like hiding the anemic face of weak women in the south of the Yangtze River under thick powder, showing a morbid beauty, then the poetic style of the four great masters is like Zhao Yan's eighteen daughters. Although beautiful, it is beautiful, full of youthful vitality, vigorous and lovely. Predecessors said that the poems in the early Tang Dynasty were "like spring grass in the pond, like flowers blooming and falling, full of implication and business", and the poetic style of the four outstanding poets was the most appropriate metaphor. Xu said, "The talents of the four sons are almost the same, and the atmosphere is restored. Therefore, although the law has not been completed, it has not been changed, and how magnificent China is, the weather of the Tang Dynasty has already begun to see. " The significance of the four outstanding figures lies in opening the road to the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Since then, Li, Du, Gao, Cen and others in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, regardless of their family background, whether they were literati or not, initially appeared as the following intellectuals. Their intensive pursuit of poetic beauty is in the same strain as the four outstanding poets, and they often show vigorous strength and flying trend.
Undeniably, the poetic language of the four masters still has the charm of poetry in the Southern Dynasties to some extent. If you pay attention to parallelism and elaborate rhetoric, sometimes it is suspected of piling up, which slightly reveals the disadvantages of stagnation. It is for this reason that Tan criticized Luo's poems for being "extremely sluggish" sometimes. (1) Some words are engraved so much that the semantics are difficult to understand. For example, Wang's poem "The flowing water draws strange tricks, and the clouds collapse and the fragrance is scattered", "The cold light in the emperor is exhausted, and the gods look forward to spring", and that's it. However, the dominant tendency of their poetic language is to develop the beautiful and fresh poetic style of the Six Dynasties, while Zhao You is superior to Lan, forming a beautiful, delicate, graceful and graceful language style, which is a new change and creation in inheritance. Under the overall language style, the languages of five-character poems and seven-character poems have their own characteristics. Five words tend to be meticulous, smooth, steady, and sometimes vigorous; Seven words stand side by side, colorful, flowing and graceful. Due to the frustration of the four outstanding poets, they lack the spirit of fighting to the end, and are not as good as those poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty who have experienced hardships without losing their high morale and optimistic and cheerful feelings. The poetic environment is cramped, fresh and rich, lacking depth and profound spirit; He also strives for victory with literary talent and time, and lacks understanding of the shortcomings of poetry in the Six Dynasties. The language innovation is not enough, and Hua Mao's ci has not been refined to the natural and delicate artistic realm. This is a historical limitation, but it can't erase the brilliance of the poems of the four outstanding poets. Since then, Chen Ziang's achievements have been formed on the basis of the four outstanding poets' poetry creation, which further promoted the four outstanding poets' poetry creation.
To sum up, the four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty were the key poets in the 90-year development of poetry in the early Tang Dynasty. They were not only reformers of the Six Dynasties' poems, but also pioneers of tang style. No matter the subject matter, poetic form or artistic style, the four masters all presented a unique aesthetic style of Tang poetry, which not only created favorable conditions for Shen and Song, but also for Li, Du Fu, Yuan and Bai, and made their Tang poetry develop to a brand-new stage. It is true that the poems of the four masters still have the characteristics of "gorgeous rhetoric and inheriting the legacy", but on the one hand, it is also due to the influence of Pian and his personal pursuit of the beauty of literary talent, which is quite different from Qi Liangchen's glamorous style. In short, their role in the development history of Tang poetry is to cross the Qi and Liang Dynasties and reach the Jin and Song Dynasties and the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Cui Rong said: "Wang Bowen and Zhang Hongyi have a little dust, which is very popular. Tim can take care of his neighbors. " Li Bai said: "King Robin is a poem, and the height of the grid refers to the distance. If in the sky, the gods gather clouds to drive cranes, I want to see the shape of floating life. " ("Poet Jade Scrap" Volume 12 "Li Taibai Collection"), it can be seen that Sijie's poems are highly valued by the Tang people. Du Fu also said in "Six Plays": "Wang Yang and Luo Lu are contemporaries, thin and light, and their reputation is ruined, and they are worthy of rivers and mountains." It can be seen that the Tang people's evaluation of Four Great Classical Novels is very pertinent. These are the "four outstanding figures", and the "four outstanding figures" in history cannot be held too high or held too low. Today, no matter whether they are damaged or not, they should be affirmed as the first monument of Tang poetry.
;