Li Shangyin is an elegant poet, and Du Mu is called "Little Du Li". Graceful ci school is characterized by its emphasis on children's customs. The structure is profound and meticulous, paying attention to the harmony of melody, the language is round and fresh, and there is a gentle beauty. But the content is narrow. For a long time, characters tend to be gentle and graceful, so people have formed the concept that grace is authentic.
Characteristics of Li shangyin's poems;
Li Shangyin's poetry is unique in the late Tang Dynasty, because he is sentimental and devoted to it. He uses many works to express the feelings of late Tang scholars and their persistence in love, thus creating a new style and a new realm of poetry.
His poems are novel in conception and beautiful in style, especially some love poems and untitled poems, which are lingering and memorable. In addition, Li Shangyin used subtle and hazy expression techniques to the extreme, but some poems were too obscure and puzzling to be solved. There was a saying that "poets always loved Quincy, but only hated that no one wrote Jian Zheng".