The New Study on"Wang Jinggong Style"Characteristics
Wang Anshi's late works,especially quatrains,presented the most mature feature in terms of artistic expression and aesthetic style.Those works with the unique artistic style,were known as"Wang Jinggong Style".They not only established the basic characteristics of Song Diao,but also differed in style from the poetry of Su Shi and Huang Tingjian.While Su and Huang were pushing the characteristics of Song Diao to the extreme,Wang's late quatrains showed a tendency to return to the style of Tang poetry while still displaying the characteristics of Song Diao.The unique characteristics of"Wang Jinggong Style"were mainly manifested in the follow-ing ways:exquisite and mature,ingenious and lively language features;beautiful and dense,light and nimble imagery features;fresh and distant,ethereal and clear artistic conception features;reserved and subtle,deep and convoluted style features.