Li Shangyin in my eyes

I formally received the influence of ancient culture in the fourth grade of elementary school. By calculation, it has been nearly ten years. When I was in high school, my old teacher asked me to study an ancient person specifically, and I chose Li Shangyin. Because I fell in love with his thousand-year-old masterpiece "Jin Se".

Li Shangyin has more than 600 poems in existence, especially his poems on the theme of love between men and women. Of course, there are also some poems that are frivolous and frivolous, revealing the author's state of mind where he is addicted to love and cannot extricate himself. The meaning of his poems often avoids reality and resorts to fantasy, deliberately seeking music, breaking the order of time and space, confusing the realm of reality and emptiness, and venting his emotions through a symbolic technique. Due to the omission of surface and internal transitions and connections, there are great jumps between verses. Coupled with his sentimentality and political ups and downs, it makes people feel obscure and difficult to read, like seeing flowers in a fog. Later generations' evaluations were extremely divided. For example, Wang Yuyang and others once lamented that "a 'Jin Se' can solve people's difficulties". In Bingfeng's view, Li Yishan's poems and prose are gorgeous and his calligraphy is classic. He is an immortal star in the history of Chinese culture. As far as Bingfeng knows, among the 300 poems of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yishan's poems are second only to Li Bai. Li Bai is known as the immortal of poetry and is an extraordinary person. Li Yishan's articles are second only to him. This shows that Li Yishan's talent can be called literary music.

Unfortunately, in Bingfeng's view, Li Yishan was not a good scholar, and his grasp of power was far inferior to other contemporary literati. Therefore, throughout his life, his fate was surly and his talents were not found. Under the pressure of the times, he could not shout loudly. In loneliness and hardship, he could only try to talk to himself, write down his sadness of not being met in his resentment, and express his thousands of hearts. The knot is all hidden in that painstaking poem. Although the persistence of love has caused repeated shocks, it is still lingering in the predicament of oneself. The concise words interspersed with poignant tones; the implicit language expressed deep emotions, but revealed a kind of incomplete beauty. But the poet's fervent worldly feelings, the sentimentality of the declining era, and the desolation injected into the magnificent poetry are all words of blood and tears that must be indelible.

The "Old Book of Tang" said that Li Shangyin "relyed on his talents and was cunning, but had no integrity"; the "New Book of Tang" said that Li Shangyin was "cunning and incompetent". This is all due to the fact that Li Shangyin fell into trouble four times in his life, although it was short-lived. A rough, but ecstatic emotional experience. Ms. Su Xuelin believes that Li Shangyin's love "is a rare adventure among literati throughout the ages and the first tragedy in the history of love." However, there are also many scholars who always believe that all of Li Shangyin's stories are fictitious, and what is recorded in his unofficial history notes cannot be taken seriously. In fact, any humanities science is inseparable from the word "love". Asking what love is in the world, it is a matter of life and death. Li Shangyin's love chants that move the world and shake the mountains are not only due to the sublimation of emotion in the soul, but also resonate with the inherent rhythm of all things in the universe. Only then can there be eternity and only then can there be truth. Without "love", what charm do those dry Chinese characters still have?

Love has become the most important theme in Shang Yin's poems, but love four times in a life is so difficult, which adds to the Li Shangyin's life was miserable. Is the nature of love like a fierce fire that burns out as soon as it burns, or should it be like a river that lasts forever? Is marriage a commitment to love, or should it leave endless regrets? When love is most perfect, it is held in the hand with sincerity and fear. Or is it the infinite longing that exists when you lose? Is love so unreliable? Love passionately, but in the end it is as clear as water, love calmly, but always pass by? What Li Shangyin wanted in his life will eventually become the moon in the water, in the mirror Flowers, leaving only the sad songs of the ages, in the silence, the fragrance condenses in the cold, faintly floating...

Let us follow Li Shangyin's love journey to understand his ups and downs. My heart is in turmoil.