Artistic Images in Li QingzhaosCi

Li Qingzhao was an outstanding poetess of the Song Dynaoty.Her ei can be divided into two periods.The move to the south of the Yangtze River was the demareation line.Im the former period,her poems were mainly about her life in private guarters, reflecting the delight of life of the girls form prominent families. They express her love for nature, her yearning for and pursuit of a happy life. In the latter period, her poems mainly describe her sorrows over the troubled times and her memory of the past and native land. She projects ingo them her sad feelings on broken country and home and yearning for homeland. Her ci is fresh and natural. Being original and laeonic in language, and unigue in skills, it creates one life-like artistic image after another, leaving a rare humane scene in the history of chinese poetry.