Vulgarity as Elegance: A Study of Graceful Euphemism and Nostalgia in LI Qing-zhao's Lyrics

The most described images in LI Qing-zhao's lyrics are plum blossoms and chrysanthemums. This can best show her scholar-officials' feelings. Her love lyrics, from the surface, describe the reluctance to departure, but actually they have profound implied meanings as well as her mourning for her perished motherland. The borrowing of common words into lyrics is to remind her of her family and motherland. The tragic feelings of her lyrics can easily arouse people's thinking and owe and ever last, and make readers get resonance of sadness