1. Yang Wanli's poetry creation has generally gone through the process of imitation, transition and self-integration. Thirty-two years ago in Shaoxing, he studied the style of Jiangxi School, and this poem was later burned by him. From then on to the fourth year of Chunxi (1177), it was a period of change in his poetic style.
2. During this period, on the one hand, he studied and discussed the philosophy of Neo-Confucianism with Zhang Jun and Zhang _, and at the same time, he moved his insights from daily life to literary creation. He said in the poem titled "Building a Zhai by Tang Deming": "I have been a thorn in my side all my life, but I learned later that there are no children in this way. I am sweating from the canal and laughing at Jiangfeng to get the river. " This attitude of despising books and attaching importance to daily life has become an opportunity for his poetic style to change.
3. Among the more than 7 poems in Jianghu Collection, there are some humorous and light poems, which are based on Chen Shidao's five laws, Wang Anshi's seven quatrains and the quatrains of the Tang Dynasty. After five years of Chunxi, the unique style of Yang Wanli's poems was basically formed, and his poetic views were basically mature.
4. This view of attaching importance to observing nature and drawing materials from daily life is a powerful reaction to Jiangxi Poetry School's poetic theory of "grabbing the embryo and changing the bones" and "turning iron into gold" from the predecessors. Formed a "sincere style" with natural fluency, humor and liveliness as its basic characteristics in language.