Abstract:
One significant aspect of Taoism's influence on Li Shangyin's poetry is the pronounced Taoist-tinged portrayal of women in his works. In terms of the genealogy of images, they can be divided into three types: female fairies, female crowns(female Taoist priest), and female prostitutes decorated with the contents of gods and fairies. The female immortals in Li Shangyin's poems are mainly the immortal-traveling poetry of the Qi and Liang dynasties, in which the model of human-immortal love originates from the Shang Qing school of narrative represented by the True Enjoin(Chen-Kao真诰), the immortal-traveling poetry of the Qi and Liang dynasties, which makes it famous for its strong lyricism. Li Shangyin's female crowns are rich in types of writing, which can be roughly divided into three categories: those who "live in or go out of the houses of the powerful and noble", those who enter the Taoist way from the noble masters, and those who are emotionally bound to Li Shangyin, and they have the highest artistic achievement, and they make good use of the dense Taoist allusions to the gods and fairies to carry out the narratives, which results in the obscurity of their love poems. The most outstanding thing about Li Shangyin's female prostitutes' writing is that he is good at writing secular erotic love with fairy stories.