On Zhang Lei’s poems——Also discussing the relation of his poems with Li Bai’s Poems

Zhang Lei, a poet of the Bei Song dynasty, along with Huang Ting Jian, Qing Guan and Zhao Bu Zhi, was called Four Scholars of Su Shi. The style of his poems is plain and natural. Besides being influenced by Su Shi’s arts, he was also deeply influenced by Yuan He poetic style advocated by Bai Ju Yi and inherited Bai Ju Yi’s spirit of writing for the times and events. Because Zhang Lei sought naturalness in creation too much, he tended to be perfunctory in art, which makes his poems hardly draw attention of the later generations despite the sensational effect at that time.