(First of all, show personal attitude: I personally think it is unreasonable to simply say that Liu Yong's ci style is "vulgar". He has an elegant side, especially those works that travel and write lyrical scenery, which show the feelings and interests of literati. Therefore, his ci style is characterized by the compatibility of elegance and vulgarity. )
Liu Yong's ci style is characterized by vulgarity, which I prefer to understand as his ci "inheriting vulgarity", which is one of his contributions to ci, mainly manifested in the source of imitating the law, creative attitude and social influence. Ci has two traditions: folk and literati. At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, without exception, they only inherited the tradition of literati words and rejected folk words. Only Liu Yong has broken through this restriction.
First, write lyrics for artists and prostitutes, draw rich nutrition from them and cultivate their own rich and interesting creative styles.
Second, he is good at adopting the new voice of the market, injecting new blood into literati ci, expanding the scope of ci, making it a well-known citizen literature and art, and winning "if you have well water to drink, you can sing willow ci." The effect of/
Thirdly, poetic artistic conception and language are also shown. A large number of words he wrote were considered vulgar words, especially songs written directly for geisha, but they were considered unsightly by orthodox scholars. The more popular and easy to understand the language of these words, the more suitable for the aesthetic taste of the citizen class, and the more widely read by future generations.
Jiang Kui belongs to the school of "scratching elegance". The so-called elegance is because they are all influenced by the times, flaunting elegance to each other and taking elegance as their aesthetic ideal. As far as Jiang Kui is concerned, the special life experience of traveling in a guest house has caused a gap between him and the social reality, but this has not created his unique ideological character, cultivated his elegant celebrity bearing and improved his artistic accomplishment.
His elegance is reflected in his poetic theory, that is, his aesthetic admiration and interest are concentrated on elegant and ethereal, lofty and profound, subtle and natural, such as thin shadows, faint fragrance, slow Yangzhou, pale yellow willow, etc., which are not only pure and ethereal, but also elegant, making people and gods fly over. In a word, Jiang Kui is good at writing ci with the poet's brushwork. He writes ci with the "stroke" method, and does not make too many qualitative descriptions of objective objects, but he is good at capturing and expressing ethereal artistic conception. Writing ci with Sao pen is good at absorbing the characteristics of Jiangxi poetry style, paying attention to tempering, thin, hard and high, and because his ci has a strong and clean atmosphere.