In 1084, Li Qingzhao was born in Mingshui Town, Zhangqiu, Qizhou (now Zhangqiu City, Jinan City, Shandong Province) in the Northern Song Dynasty (in 2004, Professor Xu Beiwen, after research, wrote an article saying: Li Qingzhao’s native place should be Qizhou Lixia , who is now from Licheng District, Jinan City, but has never settled in Jinan in his life).

His father, Li Gefei, was a Jinshi and served as a member of the Ministry of Rites. He was a very famous writer at that time. He was deeply appreciated by Su Shi, a great figure in the literary world at that time, and often communicated with each other through articles.

My mother’s Wang family comes from a well-known family. My great-grandfather Wang Jingtu and great-grandfather Wang Zan were both awarded Jinshi. My great-grandfather Wang Zhun was awarded the title of Duke of the Han Dynasty. My grandfather Wang Gui was a member of Zhongshu Province during the Xining reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty. In Pingzhangshi, during the Yuanfeng period, he was the minister Zuopushe. They were all prime ministers in charge of important matters in the country and were granted the title of Duke of Qi. Good at literature ("History of the Song Dynasty: Biography of Li Gefei" mistakenly stated that Li Qingzhao's mother Wang was the granddaughter of Prince Yike Gongchen).

In 1101, when Li Qingzhao was 18 years old, she married Zhao Mingcheng, a student from Zhucheng who was three years older than her. Zhao was from the Jinshi family, and the couple lived a stable and prosperous life in the early years. Most of their poems wrote about the grievances of the boudoir or the longing for the traveling husband, such as "A Jian of Plum Blossoms": "There is no way to eliminate this feeling, so I frown, but it is in my heart." ".

Moved to Qingzhou in 1107. In 1127, the Jin soldiers captured Qingzhou, and Li Qingzhao and her husband crossed south to Jiangning. When he arrived at Zhenjiang, Zhang Yu was trapped in Zhenjiang Mansion. Qian Boyan, the defender of Zhenjiang, abandoned the city and fled. In the spring of the second year of Jianyan (1128), he arrived at Jiangning Mansion.

After crossing south, the poet's life was difficult. In the third year of Jianyan's reign, Zhao Mingcheng went alone to take office as the governor of Huzhou. In March of the first year of Shaoxing (1131), he went to Vietnam (today's Shaoxing, Zhejiang), and his calligraphy and paintings were stolen overnight from the home of the local people Zhong.

All the ancient epigraphic scrolls she and her husband collected were lost, which devastated her. Her writing turned to worry about reality. Therefore, after experiencing the destruction of her country, her family, and her old age, her emotional tone changed. It turns to melancholy and melancholy, as in "The Slow Voice" "Looking and searching, deserted, miserable and miserable".

Li Qingzhao's later life was quite miserable. It is said that he remarried Zhang Ruzhou, but he divorced soon after and even went to court for it. He died around 1155 (previously there were different reports such as 1151 and 1156). When Sun was ten years old, it was the 21st year of Shaoxing (1151). It can be seen from this that Li Qingzhao died after 1151.

According to "History of the Song Dynasty·Yiwenzhi", Li Qingzhao wrote seven volumes of "Collected Works of Yi An" and eight volumes of "Yi An's Ci"[7], both of which are lost. There is an existing edition of Shu Yu Ci, which contains about fifty of his poems.

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The styles of Li Qingzhao’s early and later works are very different. Before the Song Dynasty moved south, Li Qingzhao lived a happy life. His works were enthusiastic, lively, bright and innocent. He mostly wrote about the carefree life of girls and the longing for parting after marriage, fully expressing the feelings of women in the boudoir.

After the Song Dynasty moved south, her husband died of illness and the country was destroyed, all of which were reflected in his lyrics. Li Qingzhao wrote mostly about the pain of displacement, the sadness of loneliness and the lingering misery. And into deep sadness.

Li Qingzhao’s early poetry style was graceful, euphemistic and implicit. In the later period, due to the pain of losing his country, his family, and losing his husband, his style of writing turned to loneliness and misery. The characteristics of his lyrics are harmonious rhythm, good at line drawing, delicate description, vivid images, appropriate metaphors, appropriate allusions, good use of repeated words, repeated sentences and couplets. He likes to use plain words and ordinary language into his lyrics, which is simple and natural.

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