Liu Changqing was a poet famous for his pastoral poems in the middle and early Tang Dynasty. His poems inherited the tradition of Wang Wei and Meng Haoran, but at the same time he was dissatisfied with the reality of corruption in the middle Tang Dynasty and showed some concern and sympathy for the people.
Liu Changqing is good at modern poetry, especially the five laws. Later, Quan Deyu called it "Five Words Great Wall".
His poems mostly express the sadness and wandering feelings of relegated officials, often express seclusion and leisure by expressing feelings for mountains and rivers, and also reveal a negative attitude towards life, with a lonely, desolate and barren artistic conception, reflecting the poet's thoughts of escaping from reality.
Liu Changqing also wrote some nostalgic works that hurt the present, and at the same time, he was mixed with the sadness of being demoted. For example, On Passing Jia Yijia in Changsha is such a work that conveys the past to the present.
Passing through Changsha Jiayi's former residence
Author: Liu Changqing
Jia Yi lived here in exile for three years, which is a tragedy of tens of millions of generations.
I look for traces of human existence in autumn grass and watch the sunset slowly tilt in the cold forest.
If even a good Wendi has a heart of stone, can you still expect the slow Hexiang to understand you?
These desolate waters, these silent mountains, when you come, like me, so far away? !
Liu Changqing's poetic style is elegant and implicit, his language is concise and clear, and his image is vivid and touching, but he lacks the demeanor and spirit of everyone in the Tang Dynasty. Because the poet's thought and life are relatively narrow, the artistic conception of his poems has not changed much and lacks rich connotation.