Abstract: Li Shangyin's unique artistic personality originated from his uneven and complex life. He once learned Taoism as a hermit in his youth at Yuyangshan Mountain, during which he fell in love with a woman Taoist. Such experience had a profound effect upon his outlook of life and his road to writing. His experience at Yuyangshan Mountain not only fortified his tragic moral character of sentimentality and pessimism, but also deepened his insight into the world via love language. Meanwhile, his Taoist life prompte...