1. Poet--Li Bai
Li Bai is the most outstanding poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and another great romantic poet after Qu Yuan in the history of Chinese literature. His poetic style is elegant and heroic. In an eclectic way, Tang Dynasty poet He Zhizhang admired Li Bai's poems and compared him to an "immortal" descending from heaven to earth. Later generations called Li Bai "the Immortal of Poetry".
2. The Poet--Du Fu
Du Fu is a great realist poet in the history of Chinese literature. His poetic style is steady and simple. His poems profoundly reflect the period from prosperity to decline of the Tang Dynasty. The social outlook of the country has rich social content, distinctive color of the times and strong political tendency. The style of Du Fu's poetry can be summarized as "depression and pause". The depression here refers to the deep and profound meaning of the article, and the pause refers to the ups and downs of emotions, the ups and downs of tone and syllables.
The language of Du's poems is plain, simple, popular and realistic, but his skills are extremely clear. Therefore, later generations named him the Saint of Poetry. Du Fu lived in poverty throughout his life and never bowed to the powerful, so he became a poet. The "sage" is compassionate and compassionate. Du Fu's poetic style is profound, his poems are simple, and he pays attention to people's livelihood throughout his life, so he is called the "sage of poetry".
3. Poetry Ghost - Li He
People often say that geniuses are usually weak and short-lived. In fact, this is an incorrect idea. According to expert research, geniuses are often more intelligent than ordinary people. A person with a good physique often harms his body due to overexertion. Legend has it that Li He, known as the Ghost of Poetry in the Tang Dynasty, would go out early every morning to find inspiration. Occasionally, he would write down his insights on notes and throw them into the soup. After returning home, he would stay up all night to sort them out, unless he was drunk or there was a funeral at home. The hanging matter will never stop. Seeing him working so hard, his mother once worried and said, "I'm afraid this kid will have to vomit his blood before he stops." Sure enough, Li He died at the age of twenty-six.
4. Poetry Prisoner - Meng Jiao
The meaning of "Poetry Prisoner" is to be imprisoned by poetry. Why is it said that Meng Jiao was imprisoned by poetry? "Poetry Prisoner" actually comes from Yuan Haowen's "Fang Yan" "Han Fei died alone and angry, Yu Qing wrote about poverty and sorrow, Changsha and Hunan were tired, and two suburbs and islands were in prison for poetry."
Among them, "Jiaodao Two Poem Prisoners" refers to two men, Meng Jiao and Jia Dao, who wrote poems and recited them bitterly. They focused on refining words and sentences, and regarded poetry as the most important thing in life, as if they were prisoners of poetry. generally. Meng Jiao wrote poems about poverty and sorrow, which he would never rest until death. He was living in a vast and vast place, yet he was confined to his poverty, just like a prisoner in a poem.
5. Poet Hao--Liu Yuxi
His poems are calm and solemn, with a natural and rough rhythm. Bai Juyi gave him the reputation of "Poetry Hao", which means a heroic and outstanding poet. meaning. He advocated political innovation and was one of the central figures in the political innovation activities of Wang Shuwen School.
6. Poet Master--Wang Bo
He, Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, and Luo Binwang were all outstanding poets at a time. They became famous at a young age and all had extraordinary talents, so the four of them were combined. Among the "Four Heroes of the Early Tang Dynasty", Wang Bo is the first of the four, so he is called the "Poetry Hero"
7. Poetry - Chen Zi'ang
Chen Zi'ang's poetry is characterized by its progressive and fulfilling style. The ideological content and simple and vigorous language style had a huge impact on the entire Tang Dynasty poetry. Later, Zhang Jiuling's poem "Ganyu" and Li Bai's "Ancient Style" both used his poem "Ganyu" as a learning object.
Most of his poems have passionate meaning and high style, sweeping away the decadent tone of the court poets of Qi and Liang Dynasties and the early Tang Dynasty. The style is high and clear, and has the "character of Han and Wei Dynasties", so he is known as the "bone of poetry" ". ?
8. The Poetic Demon - Bai Juyi
Bai Juyi wrote poems extremely hard, as he himself said: "The drunken mania also caused the Poetic Demon to become angry, and he chanted sadly to the west at noon." "Excessive reading and writing have resulted in sores on the mouth and tongue and calluses on the fingers. That’s why he is called the “Poetry Demon”. Bai Juyi's poems are full of charm, elegant and popular, and even ordinary old ladies can understand them, and they are widely circulated.
He wrote more than 3,000 poems in his life, "so that his mouth and tongue became sores and his elbows became calluses." Excessive reading and writing resulted in sores on the mouth and tongue and calluses on the fingers. He wrote poems very hard. Among the poems he wrote were: "Drunken madness also leads to poetry, and I chant sadly from noon to the west." Later generations called him the "Poetry Demon".
9. Poetry Buddha - Wang Wei
Wang Wei was famous for his poetic talent during the Tianbao period of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, he was known as the "Tianwen Sect". He wrote some poems with positive meanings, many of which have high artistic achievements. His landscape pastoral poems are even more eye-opening. He and Meng Haoran are known as the "landscape pastoral school" poets.
Wang Wei was a devout Buddhist believer in his early years. As he suffered political setbacks, his thoughts became negative. In his later years, he worshiped Buddhism for a long time, wore no elegant clothes, and lived in a Lantian villa with his Taoist friend Pei Di. In the past, he "played the piano, composed poems, and roared proudly all day long." Just as he himself wrote: "No matter how sad your life is, you can't let it go to the empty door." "In your later years, you just like to be quiet and don't care about anything."
Therefore, many of his later poems had almost no positive reflection on reality. The Buddha and Lao had strong negative thoughts, and some were even full of the Buddha's idealistic philosophy of emptiness and annihilation. During his lifetime, people thought that he was a "contemporary poet and a Zen master." "Shangli" (Yuan Xian's "Preface to Rewarding the King"), and after his death he was given the title of "Poetry Buddha".
10. Shi Nu - Jia Dao
Jia Dao’s style of work: the language is light and simple, he relies on casting characters and refining sentences, and he is deliberately craftsmanship. The subject matter is narrow, lacks social content, and has many It is a work depicting scenery, farewell and nostalgia. The mood is desolate and desolate, which is related to the style of his works. He devoted his life to composing poetry and liked to recite painstakingly. The old people called it "poetry slave" and "poetry prisoner".
11. Shi Yin - Meng Haoran
Meng Haoran was born in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. In his early years, he had ambitions to serve the world. After his official career was difficult and painful and disappointing, he was still able to respect himself, did not flatter the secular world, and practiced Taoism and lived in seclusion for the rest of his life. . He once lived in seclusion in Lumen Mountain.
When he was 40 years old, he traveled to Chang'an and failed to win the imperial examination. He once wrote poems in Taixue, and became famous among the officials. He was so impressed that he wrote for him. In the twenty-fifth year of Kaiyuan (737), Zhang Jiuling attracted the shogunate and lived in seclusion. Most of Meng's poems are five-character short stories, mostly describing landscapes, pastoral scenes, the joy of living in seclusion, and the mood of traveling and traveling. Although there are some cynical words in it, they are more of the poet's self-expression, so it is called "Poetry Hidden".
12. Shilao-Tang Qiu
Hermit. No one knew about the poems he wrote, so he rolled the manuscript into a ball, put it in a big water ladle, let it float away with the water, and found someone who knew the poem. Extended information
Great poets of the past dynasties--
Three Kingdoms of the Han Dynasty: Sima Xiangru, Zhuo Wenjun, Yang Xiong, Kong Rong, Cao Cao, Cao Zhi, Cao Pi, Cai Wenji, and Ruan Ji.
Two Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties: Tao Yuanming and Xie Lingyun.
Sui and Tang Dynasties: Yang Guang, Li Mi, Wang Bo, Lu Zhaolin, Yang Jiong, Luo Binwang, Chen Ziang, Song Zhiwen, Du Shenyan, Gao Shi, Cen Shen, Wang Wei, Meng Haoran, Cui Hao, He Zhizhang, Wang Changling, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Zhang Ji, Liu Zongyuan, Xu Hun, Han Yu, Wei Yingwu. Li He, Liu Yuxi, Wen Tingyun, Li Shangyin, Du Mu, Luo Yin, Lu Guinian, Pi Rixiu, Wang Jian.
Five Dynasties and Song Dynasty: Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi, Chen Shidao, Huang Tingjian, You Miao, Yang Wanli, Fan Chengda, Lu You, Wang Anshi.
Jin Yuan: Yuan Haowen, Wang Mian.
Ming and Qing Dynasties: Gao Qi, Yang Shen, Li E, Zhu Zunyi, Zhang Wentao.
Since the Republic of China: Xu Zhimo, Feng Zhi, Dai Wangshu, Shu Ting, Xi Murong, Zheng Chouyu, Gu Cheng, Li Shengjiao, Haizi, Hei Ya.
Elegant title of poet
The ancestor of poetry in the Tang Dynasty - Chen Zi'ang. Fang Hui of the Yuan Dynasty called him "Zi'ang, Chen Shiyi, the ancestor of poetry in the Tang Dynasty."
The star of poetry - Meng Haoran. Lu Fengzao's "Xiao Zhi Lu" of the Qing Dynasty "The star of poetry is Meng Haoran."
The Emperor of Poetry - Wang Changling. He has the reputation of "Wang Jiangning, the Poet Emperor".
Poetic Maniac - He Zhizhang. He has an open-minded nature and calls himself "Si Ming Kuang Ke". Because of his bold and unrestrained poetry, he is known as the "Poetry Maniac".
The Great Wall of Five Characters - Liu Changqing. He is good at five-character poems, and his five-character poems account for seventy-eight tenths of all poems. People call him the "Five-character Great Wall"
Hongyan poet-Zhu Shuzhen. Most of his poems describe personal love life. In the early stage, his writing style was bright, the words were clear and graceful, and the emotions were touching. In the later stage, he was melancholy and depressed, with a lot of resentment and sentimentality. Later generations called him "the red poet".
Reference: Poet-Baidu Encyclopedia