What are the characteristics of Song Dynasty poetry?

Poetry of the Song Dynasty directly inherited the tradition of Tang Dynasty poetry. At the beginning of the founding of the country, many of the poets were former ministers of the previous dynasty. They were highly educated, and their poems had a remnant of the Tang Dynasty. For example, the brothers Xu Xian and Xu Kai and Li Fang, all of whom entered the Song dynasty from the Fifth Dynasty, were y influenced by Bai Juyi, and their poems were influential in the early Song dynasty. Following this, Wang Yu-polep ascended to the poetic scene. Although he studied Bai Juyi, he was more in awe of Du Fu and studied Du Fu's poetic style, and in his poem "Poems to Show the Son," he said, "Originally, I was a latecomer to Lotte, but I dared to expect Zimei to be the predecessor." His poetry was very influential in the early Song Dynasty. During the era of Emperor Taizong and Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, there were several reclusive poets: Lin Bu, Wei Ye, Pan Lang, and the Nine Monks, who followed the poets of the Middle Tang Dynasty, such as Jia Dao and Yao He, in their poems, and created poems that were deliberately laborious, reflecting mostly the leisurely and quiet reclusive life. Among them, Lin Bu was the most accomplished, and his character and poetry were highly praised. At the same time, there were also several poets in the civil service: Yang Yi, Liu Yun and Qian Weiyan advocated the study of Li Shangyin, a poet of the late Tang Dynasty. When they were ordered to compile the large-scale class book "Book of Yuan Turtle", they wrote poems and sang with each other, and later Yang Yi compiled the poems they sang with each other into the "Xikun Reward and Singing Collection", which contained 250 poems by 17 poets, and thus Xikun Style got its name. Xikun style poetry, pay attention to colorful and gorgeous, graceful and elegant, more allusions, but the content of the empty, making some learned people dissatisfied with it. At this time, the first up to advocate poetry innovation are Mei Yaochen, Su Sunqin and others, they are dissatisfied with the Xikun style poets to pursue the late Tang Dynasty flashy and soft poetry style, and advocate that poetry should be inherited by the tradition of elegance and reflect the reality.

Mei Yaochen said in a poem of gift and reply: "There are some excitement because of the matter, because of the thing to pass"; Su Shunqin said in a poem of feelings: "to speak up for the benefit of the people to save them", which fully expresses their attitude of creation. Ye Xie of the Qing Dynasty pointed out in the Original Poetry: "Those who opened the style of Song poetry generation, such as Mei Yaochen, Su Sunqin two people."