Abstract:

There are some similarities between Lu Xun and Li Shangyin not only in their each life and experience, but also in their creation of old - style poetry, especially in their constructing and combining ways of poetic images and in their gorgeous, implicit and meaningfully profound genres. This shows Lu Xun's deep identification of Li Shangyin. Lu's comments on Li reflect his scientific attitude of bold absorption and critical inheritance towards the essence of our national culture, which has been overlooked and misunderstood for a long time. To formulate this relation of identity and inheritance may deepen our recognition and study of Lu Xun.

Key words: identity, image, the Chu poetic tradition