Li Yi's most famous poetry style is Qijue.
Li Yi (about 750 AD - about 830 AD), courtesy name Junyu, was born in Didao, Longxi (now Lintao, Gansu). He later moved to Zhengzhou, Henan. He was a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
He was born in the Guzangfang of the Li family in Longxi. He was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Dali (769). He was first appointed as the captain of Zheng County. He was not promoted for a long time. In the fourth year of Jianzhong (783), he was awarded the title of "Excellent Scholar". Due to frustration in his official career, he abandoned his official position and wandered around Yanzhao. Famous for his frontier poems, he is good at quatrains, especially seven-character quatrains.
Li Yi's poetic style is bold and bright, and he is especially famous for his frontier fortress poems. He is a representative poet of frontier fortress poetry in the mid-Tang Dynasty. Two songs, "Sending the Envoy from Liaoyang to Return to the Army" and "Listening to the Flute in the City at Night" were widely sung at that time. Although his frontier fortress poems are full of heroic words, they tend to be sentimental. They mainly express the resentment of the border soldiers who have been garrisoned for a long time and want to return home. They no longer have the heroic and optimistic mood of the frontier fortress poems of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He is good at quatrains, especially Qijue. His famous works include "Writing Love", "Walking to the West City at Night", "Joining the Army in the Northern Expedition", "Surrendering", "Listening to the Flute on a Spring Night", etc. There are also many famous verses in its rhyme style, such as the five rhymes "Happy to see my brother-in-law and say goodbye", "Ask your surname to be surprised when you first meet, call your name to recall your old appearance", which is a famous line passed down through the generations. The seven rhymes "Climbing the Stork Tower with Cui Bing" and "Crossing Wuyuan Hu'er to drink from Maquan" (also known as "Crossing Huer to drink from Maquan in Yanzhou") are all excellent works. There are currently 2 volumes of "Collection of Li Yi", 2 volumes of "Collection of Poems of Li Junyu", and 1 volume of "Collection of Poems of Li Shangshu" in the "Eryoutang Series".
He excelled in singing and poetry. At the end of Zhenyuan, he became as famous as his ancestor Li He. Every time he wrote a piece, the musicians in the church offered bribes and sang it as a tribute. In his "Song of Recruitment" and "Morning Journey", those who do good things are painted as barriers. Its most famous representatives are "Jiangnan Song" and "Listening to the Flute in the City at Night". The former is about a woman who misses her husband because he is a merchant in Qutang. If you have faith, marry a trend-setter." (If I had known earlier, I would have been better off marrying a trend-setter! After all, the tides rise and fall at certain times, and I can always stay with the trend-setter day and night, which is much better than a merchant's wife.) The psychological description is vivid. The latter describes the homesickness of the border guards who surrendered to the city, "I don't know where to blow the reed pipe, and all the soldiers in the army looked back home in one night." The melodious playing of the reed pipe arouses long-lasting homesickness, which makes people sympathize and sad when reading it. Collected one volume, and now compiled two volumes of poetry (volumes 282 and 283 of the Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty).