The poet Du Mu and who are collectively called "Little Du Li"

Poets Du Mu and Li Shangyin are called "Little Du Li".

Li Shangyin (about 8 13-858), born in western Henan (xi) and Fan Nan, born in Xingyang, Zhengzhou (now Xingyang, Henan), was a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty, and was also called "Little Du Li" with Du Mu, Li Shangyin and Li He.

In the second year of Tang Wenzong (837), Li Shangyin became the first scholar, and served as secretary of the provincial school, bookkeeper of the school and commander of Hongnong. Because he was involved in the political whirlpool of "the dispute between Niu and Li", he was excluded and frustrated all his life. In the last years of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (about 858), Li Shangyin died of illness in Zhengzhou and was buried in Xingyang, his hometown. It is also said that he was buried in Yongdian, Huaizhou (now Wangzhuang Town, Qinyang Mountain) at the foot of Qinghua Beishan, whose ancestral home is Dongyuan.

Li Shangyin was one of the few poets who deliberately pursued the beauty of poetry in the late Tang Dynasty and even the whole Tang Dynasty. He is good at poetry writing, and parallel prose also has high literary value. His poems are novel in conception and beautiful in style, especially some love poems and untitled poems are touching, beautiful and moving, and are widely read.

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Most of Li Shangyin's political poems appear as poems that satirize the present by borrowing the past. For example, Ode to an Epic criticizes the debauchery, ignorance and incompetence of the rulers. One of the two poems in Sui Palace is intended to remind the rulers of the late Tang Dynasty to learn from history.

Another example is Two Poems by Ma Su. Secondly, it satirized and mocked the tragic ending of Tang Xuanzong's estrangement from his relatives and even the loss of his beloved concubine for the sake of the emperor. Implicit and deep, the meaning is beyond words.

The success of Li Shangyin's epic lies in paying attention to the conciseness of ideas and the precision of materials, skillfully combining history with reality, or creating fictional scenes with imaginary words, breaking through the limitations of historical facts and revealing the essence of satirical objects more deeply; Or grasp the details or trivia with typical significance and dig deeper to make it more general and typical.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, Yang Yi, Liu Yun and others sang with each other and founded the Kunxi Style, which is famous for learning Li Shangyin's poetic style. At that time, a professional actor played Li Shangyin, dressed in rags, and said to others: Yang Yi, they tore my clothes alive. Make everyone laugh. Some people use this story to satirize the inheritance of Li Shangyin by "Quincy School" poets.

Linghu Chu is another important figure in Li Shangyin's study career. He is an expert in parallel prose and appreciates Li Shangyin's talent very much. Not only taught him the writing skills of parallel prose, but also subsidized his family life and encouraged him to make friends with his children.

With the help of Ling Huchu, Li Shangyin's parallel prose writing has made rapid progress, from which he gained great confidence, hoping to develop his career with this ability. During this period (in the fourth year of Daiwa, AD 830), Li Shangyin thanked Ling Huchu and satisfied himself.