First of all, a brief introduction.
A glance at the Tang Dynasty brought me back to my dream. Today, the Tang Dynasty is still thousands of years away from us, but hundreds of Tang poems have accompanied us for thousands of years. The neat poems seem to bring us back to the prosperous times of the Tang Dynasty. The world knows the poet Li Bai and Du Fu, but we don't know that there was another poet in the Tang Dynasty-Zhang.
Second, the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, and poetry was full of dynasties.
1. The Tang Dynasty was the most open and powerful dynasty in China's ancient feudal society. As one of the most developed countries in the world at that time, China was a unified Central Plains dynasty after the Sui Dynasty, and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty was reflected in all aspects. Because the rulers of the Tang Dynasty were descendants of Hu Han, they were more open and tolerant in economic thought.
The Tang Dynasty is famous for its national strength and wealth. In the Tang Dynasty, there were merchants in Asia and Europe, and there were countless merchants on the Silk Road, which made the economy of the Tang Dynasty prosperous. In terms of cultural thought, the Tang Dynasty is still different from other dynasties. People in the Tang Dynasty were highly free of thought and basically not bound by long-term feudal ethics, forming an atmosphere of not attaching importance to classics.
3. In ancient times, the only way to be an official was the imperial examination, and the extremely developed poetry and fu in the Tang Dynasty could not be separated from the imperial examination system. There are two kinds of imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty, one is the Ming Classics, which mainly tests the classics, and the other is the Jinshi, which mainly tests poetry and fu.
Third, it is full of traces of poetry and unofficial history.
1. Speaking of Zhang, I believe many people have read his work "Moonlit Night on a Spring River". It is this wizard who is full of poems and books, and no one cares about the official history. Only unofficial history can see the outline of his life. Zhang's date of birth and death is unknown, and he probably lived to be sixty years old. He played an important role in the transformation of poetic style in the early Tang Dynasty, and he was a connecting link between the preceding and the following.
2. He, He, Zhang Xu and Bao Rong are called "four sons of Wuzhong". Moonlit Night on a Spring River is more lyrical than Li Bai and more vivid than Du Fu's realism. He defeated Li Bai and Du Fu, and he has the reputation of "covering the whole Tang Dynasty with a solitary article". There are only two extant Poems of the Tang Dynasty by Zhang Xian, namely, Moonlit Night on a Spring River and Songs in a Dream.