Abstract: With reference to the Tang Dynas typoems of heptasyllabic quatrair, people hold Li Bai and Wang Changling in esteem. As a matter of fact, Li Shangyin showed originality in her poems and formed her own unique artistic characteristic in the later period of Tang Dynasty. Her poems are at once graceful, elegant, fluent and touching with suble satire and deep implication. Compared with Li and Wang, she is by no means inferior in literary at tainments.

Key words: Li Shangyin, the art of heptasyllablic quatrain poems