1. Judging from the number of poems, The Whole Tang Poetry compiled in the Qing Dynasty recorded more than 48,900 poems. It is two or three times more than the sum of the poems in the Book of Songs from the pre-Qin period to the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Moreover, the Tang poems included in Complete Tang Poems are not all. Many poets in the Tang Dynasty wrote well, but few of them were handed down from generation to generation. For example, Wang Zhihuan's Poems on Loving Herons is very famous, but he only left six poems. Zhang's "Moonlit Night on the Spring River" is an orphan poem that "dominates the whole Tang Dynasty". There are only two poems left, and most of his works must have been lost. Li Bai claimed to be "100 poems about fighting wine", and now there are only 900 poems left in the world. This shows that both the small family and everyone are missing a lot of poems.
2. Judging from the content of poetry: Wen Yiduo once said: Most people like to talk about Tang poetry, but I want to talk about Tang poetry. Poets in the Tang Dynasty are also poets in the Tang Dynasty. Only by understanding the Tang Dynasty can we appreciate the Tang poetry. Indeed, the life of people in the Tang Dynasty is the life of poetry, and poetry has penetrated into all aspects of the society in the Tang Dynasty. Judging from the life reflected in Tang poetry, landscapes, natural scenery, battlefields, urban and rural areas, marriage and love, friends' communication, realistic struggle, people's sufferings, corruption of ruling groups and historical themes are widely reflected, which shows that poetry is indispensable in the life of Tang people.
3. Judging from the completeness of the poetry system, various systems of ancient poetry tended to be stereotyped and mature in the Tang Dynasty. For example, there are five or seven lines in ancient poems, Yuefu poems and lines of songs, five laws, seven laws, five unique lines, seven unique lines, five elements and seven lines in modern poetry, as well as six-character poems and miscellaneous poems of different lengths. It can be said that the poetry circles in the Tang Dynasty were open to each other.
4. Judging from the writer's achievements and the formation of many styles and schools, the poetry circle in the Tang Dynasty is full of stars. If the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period are a great era in which a hundred schools of thought contend, then the Tang Dynasty is an era in which a hundred flowers blossom in the field of poetry. Lu Xun said: "I thought all the good poems had been written in the Tang Dynasty. If I can't dig the Monkey King out of the Tathagata's palm, I don't have to do it. " (Lu Xun's Letters, Volume II, page 699) Li Bai and Du Fu, two great poets who can rank among the world's great writers, are Gemini constellations in the Tang Dynasty. In addition, Wang Meng in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan in the middle Tang Dynasty, and Li, Du Fu and Wen in the late Tang Dynasty were all poets with their own styles. In more than 200 years, so many outstanding poets have emerged and formed.
In addition to poetry, prose, novels, words and other styles have also made great achievements in the Tang Dynasty.
In terms of prose, the movement of ancient prose in the Tang and Song Dynasties began in the Tang Dynasty, and Liu Han's prose in the middle Tang Dynasty influenced the Song and Ming Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty and modern times.
In terms of novels, the novels of the Tang Dynasty are short stories in classical Chinese. There are two systems of ancient novels, classical Chinese novels and vernacular novels. The mature form of classical Chinese novels is the legend of Tang Dynasty, and the mature form of vernacular novels is the script of Song and Yuan Dynasties. ) was developed on the basis of the novels of the Six Dynasties and the developed commercial economy in the Tang Dynasty. China's short stories in classical Chinese have artistic value and gained a position in the history of literature, which originated from the legend of the Tang Dynasty.
The golden age of Ci was in the Song Dynasty, but it originated in the middle Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi, Liu Yuxi and others began to write lyrics. The late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties were the development period of Ci, and Wen and Li Yu were outstanding poets in this period.