A Study On The Seven-character Poems Of Li Shangyin

Since the last century, research about Li Shangyin has been a heated topic, but the previous research did not give enough attention to his Seven-character-regular-verse. Therefore this paper would put his Seven-character-regular-verse as a independent study object and try to make certain contribution to the following three aspects:Firstly, to investigate its status in the development of Seven-character-regular-verse in Tang dynasty; Secondly, to interpret it in the background of the late Tang dynasty; Finally, to explore the causes of its unique style. This paper would give a brief introduction to relevant study of Li Shangyin's Seven-character-regular-verse in the first place and specify the paper's research thinking and structure.The first section would investigate Seven-character-regular-verse development before him. Firstly I would give a objective description to the characteristic of Seven-character-regular-verse, namely difficult as it would be, but it could demonstrate the best of modern style poetry once finished. I agree with the idea that the characteristic of Seven-character-regular-verse was mainly shaped in the early Tang dynasty, and believe that the popularity of old-fashioned Seven-character-regular-verse but not Seven-character-regular-verse itself indicated that the poets in the glorious Tang dynasty had no interest in Seven-character-regular-verse. Although Du Fu lived in the glorious age of Tang Dynasty, he devoted to create a lot of fantastic Seven-character-regular-verses. His Seven-character-regular-verses Which wrote in KuiZhou in his last years also became the insurmountable masterpiece for the descendants. From then on, the contents of Seven-character-regular-verse were mainly about giving thanks and mountain climbing events. The thanks Seven-character-regular-verses by the famous poets including Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen, Liu Yuxi, Ling Huchu, Yang Juyuan, Zhang Ji, etc, made it more and more easy.The second section would study the impact of late Tang background on his Seven-character-regular-verse. The political turbulence and the attempt by Li Shangyin to write Seven-character-regular-verse to indicate the current affairs gave his Seven-character-regular-verse a characteristic of "vague implication". The atmosphere of feasting and fun in the late Tang dynasty made his writing involved some romance, but he still kept some distance from the current feasting background which made his romantic poetry always with taste and style. Moreover the self-approval moral tendency helped him could build his own style while learn widely from others'strong points.The third section would mainly discuss its art characteristics. Li' Seven-character-regular-verse demonstrated Du Fu's self-awareness in many aspects but still managed to develop its own style. And "talent, destiny and be frustrated for the talent "became the most unique place for Li. In the context of obvious striving for epigram in late Tang dynasty, Li managed to put obeying the law of Seven-character-regular-verse in the first place and still try for self-awareness in such background. Due its elegance and richness in thinking, his "Untiled" Seven-character-regular-verses became the most glorious yet unduplicated ones.