Answer: The reasons for the prosperity of literature in the Tang Dynasty mainly include the following two aspects:
First of all, from an objective point of view, the diverse and colorful life in the Tang Dynasty prepared for the development of literature. Rich soil. The Tang Dynasty was the most glorious period in the history of our country. More than a hundred years of pioneering development, strong national power, economic prosperity, inclusiveness of ideas, and the integration of Chinese and foreign cultures created an environment that was extremely beneficial to cultural development. The earth enriched the creativity of literature, brought a high-spirited spirit to literature, and created the atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty that has been repeatedly praised by future generations. At the same time, it also experienced an unprecedented war disaster such as the Anshi Rebellion, and began a life of killing, destruction, displacement, and disasters in front of the scholars. Such a rich life is not available in every dynasty, which provides writers with extremely rich themes and expands their horizons.
Secondly, from the perspective of literary development itself, the prosperity of Tang literature is the inevitable result of the development of literature in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, literature had developed rapidly on the road to becoming an independent subject. Parallel prose pushed the beauty of prose to the extreme, while also exposing its weaknesses. The rhythmic form of poetry has taken shape, and a new poetry style that will influence our country for more than a thousand years is about to emerge. The writing purposes and writing standards of the original multiple genres are changing, and new genres are constantly emerging. All these show that the literature of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties has made all preparations for the development of Chinese literature to a new stage. It was on this basis that the Tang people created a generation of comprehensively prosperous literature.
The prosperity of literature in the Tang Dynasty is mainly reflected in two aspects:
First, it is reflected in the comprehensive development of poetry, prose, novels and Ci. Poetry developed earliest and occupied the most important position in Tang literature. When poetry developed to its peak, prose began its stylistic reform. In terms of the scale and impact of the stylistic reform, no previous period could compare with it. Novels also began to flourish, and the emergence of Tang legends marked the maturity of Chinese classical Chinese novels as a genre. And when prose, novels, and poetry were in decline one after another, another form of poetry, the word, came back to the literary world and became radiant. After the Tang Dynasty, it was almost impossible to find a period of literary silence.
Secondly, the prosperity of Tang literature is also reflected in the large number of authors and the emergence of great masters. "Complete Tang Dynasty" contains more than 3,000 authors, and "Complete Tang Poetry" contains more than 2,200 authors. According to incomplete statistics, there are still 220 or 30 kinds of Tang novels that can be found today. The number of outstanding poets who appeared in the Tang Dynasty is unprecedented in the history of Chinese poetry.