Nicknames of ancient poets

First, because of the poet's character or creative style. For example, Li Bai's poems are elegant and called "poetic immortals"; Du Fu's poems are famous for their elegance and are known as "poets". Li and Shi are strange and called "Shi Gui"; Bai Juyi is addicted to poetry, as if possessed, calling himself a "poet demon"; Meng Jiao and Jia Dao are bitter poets, and they are called "poetry prisoners". Liu Yuxi is heroic and heroic, and Bai Juyi calls him a "poet"; Luo likes to write poems with numbers and is called "Dr. Suan".

Second, take the colorful words in the poet's works as nicknames. For example, Xu Qiushi, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote a poem "People are thin in the sound of Zigui, and flowers are suddenly cold in spring", which was highly praised by poetry friends Lu Laizhuang and Tang, calling him "Xu Zigui"; According to Liang Shaoren's Essays on Two Kinds of Autumn Rain Temples in Qing Dynasty, Guan Shuichu wrote a poem "Two or three minutes of rain meets cold food, and twenty-four winds reach apricot flowers" in the paper "Spring is Things". After reading it, the examiner praised it greatly, saying that water control was the original "apricot blossom management".

Third, it is named after an exquisite poem in the poet's works. For example, when describing the early morning scenery of the frontier fortress in the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Wei wrote a poem "Broken stars count points, Xiao leans against the building", which won Du Mu's sigh and called it "Zhao leans against the building"; Zhang Xian's "A bunch of flowers" in the Song Dynasty said: "I would rather be a peach and apricot than marry Dongfeng." Ouyang Xiu liked it very much after reading it. When he arrived home as a guest, Ouyang Xiu enthusiastically called him "Marrying Dongfeng Langzhong" (Zhang's official position at that time was Langzhong). There is a poem "Man Ting Square" written by Qin Guan. The first sentence is "Wei Yun is smeared on the mountain, grass sticks to the sky, and the door is broken with the sound of painting corners". After reading it, Su Shi praised him and called him "Shan Mo Wei Yunjun".

Fourthly, summarize from several exquisite poems of the poet. For example, He Zi once wrote three famous sentences, such as "candles burn short red", "rain falls red" and "sunset red on both sides of the strait", which is called "three red scholars"; Wang Shizhen is known as the "Three Green Poets" because of three quatrains, namely, "Spring sail is green", "Jiangnan is green in my dream" and "My bride's head is green with smoke". There are three sentences in Zhang Xian's poems, which are "a thoughtful man with tearful eyes", which gives him the nickname "Zhang Sanzhong", but he prefers to call him "Zhang Sanying" because he has three sentences: "Clouds break through the moon to make a flower shadow", "Delicate and lazy, the curtain is rolling" and "The willow path is empty, flying without a trace.

Five, from the poet's creative theme. For example, Xie Daowen, a poet in the Southern Dynasties, used catkins to chant flying snow, which is called "singing catkins"; Xie Wuyi, her contemporary, wrote more than 300 poems about butterflies, named "Xie Butterfly". Li E's "Miscellanies of Dongcheng" said that there were ten poems of "Wild Flowers" in Zhang Ziye of Wulin (Hangzhou), which were widely circulated at one time. People call him "Zhang Wildflower", and some people call him "Zhang Wildflower".

Six, because of the poet's experience or interest, hobby. For example, Song Qi in the Song Dynasty was named "Cai Hou" because he was endowed with the word "Cai Hou" in scientific research, and he was the first person in the discipline of erudition and macro-speech in China. According to Lu You's Notes on the Old Learning Hall, Fan Zhongyan likes to play the piano, and usually only likes to play Lu Shuang, so people nicknamed him "Lv Fanshuang". Lin Bu, a poet in Song Dynasty, was unmarried. He loves plum blossoms and entertains himself by raising cranes, so he is known as "the wife of plum and crane".