Li He is a genius and wizard in the field of poetry.
Why do you call him "Shi Gui"? In the field of poetry, people can get recognized titles, mostly by the style of their works.
Li Bai's works are elegant and immortal, so they are "poetic immortals"; Du Fu's works are concerned about the country and the people, so they are called "poets". Li He is called "Shi Gui", naturally because of his eccentric style.
Among the more than 200 poems handed down from generation to generation, less than one-tenth are poems about ghosts, but among the works of famous contemporary poets, they are already outstanding. His works include Qiu Lai, Walking in Nanshan Field, Sword Song in Spring Square, Su Xiaoxiao's Tomb, South Garden, Wushan Gao, Immortal and so on.
Among them, the most famous "Su Xiaoxiao's Tomb" has a positive description of Su Xiaoxiao's ghost image, which is unique even in the poetry circles of the Middle Tang Dynasty:
Dewdrops on orchids in the cemetery are like her sad tears.
There is no knot in the knot, and the flowers in the cemetery are even worse.
The grass is like a mat, and the pine tree is like her car cover.
The breeze is her clothes, and Jasper is her Yu Pei.
The oil-wall car used before death should be waiting around at night.
Wildfire Wildfire green, courtesy, lightning.
She walked, under the Xiling, only the wind and rain, whistling.
Su Xiaoxiao was a famous prostitute in Qiantang during the Southern Qi Dynasty. In the preface to The Tomb of the True Mother, Shen Li said, "There is a tomb of Su Xiaoxiao, a prostitute in Jiaxing County. It is stormy and rainy, or there is a voice singing on it."
This poem by Li He takes the story of Su Xiaoxiao as the theme, describing the ghost image and the nether world.
The dew on the secluded vanilla is like her sad tears. There is nothing to make concentric knots, and no one is going to trim colorful flowers everywhere. Green grass is like grass, pine and cypress are like covers, cutting wind is like clothes, and holding water is like admiration. Her tanker waited quietly in the evening. Like a candle's phosphorus fire, flickering, the forest is cold and green, forcing her to light up her trip.
She finally left, under the Xiling, only the cold wind wrapped in rain, whispering sadness.
The whole poem starts from the scenery, depicts the shadowy image of Su Xiaoxiao through melancholy scenes and rich associations, and embodies the poet's unique sense of life experience.
Li He likes to write ghosts on topics, and his ci style is the combination of Yao He and Han Yu. There are both Yao He's bitter singing school and Han Yu's adventures, and Li He also created a special technique to create the artistic conception of poetry.
He is very good at creating colorful and strange atmosphere.
Being called "Shi Gui" is not only because he likes to create works related to ghosts, but also because of his unique poetry style. Ghosts dance wildly; The color is mottled.
Let's look at his other masterpiece "Wild Goose Gate";
Enemy soldiers rolled in like dark clouds in an attempt to tear down the city wall; Our army was ready, and the sun shone on the armor, glittering with gold.
In autumn, the loud bugle sounded; The soldier's blood became dark in the night.
The red flag rolled half, and the reinforcements rushed to Xiao; The night frost is heavy and the drums are gloomy.
Just to return the king, sword and death.
"Dark clouds, sunny sun, golden scales, autumn colors, rouge, purple night, red flag, frost drum, Huang Jintai, Yulong sword", which one is not rich and colorful?
Li He used these colorful images to throw at readers in chunks, but he didn't give life a feeling of being overwhelmed.
He is used to creating a heavy tragic atmosphere with colorful images-just like Beijing opera and traditional Chinese opera, with different expressions, but the core of expression is the same.
In Li He's works, his writing characteristics can be seen everywhere, such as Guo's "Hua Tuo weaves like an onion, and the gold ring is exquisite"; "Autumn is bright, autumn is white, the pool is swimming, and insects are singing". There are stones on the Yungen moss mountain, which are cold and red and weeping. "They all use bright color differences to create an unusual artistic conception.
This unique selection of materials and unique writing skills have made great contributions to the development of the whole poem, especially to the colorful literary forms, Quincy style and epigrams in the late Tang Dynasty.
As a first-class poet, he described a colorful and bizarre ghost domain for us through unusual poetic language, which is why we call him "Shi Gui".