The Development of Poetry in Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty was a country of poetry, and poets came forth in large numbers. For example, Yang Jiong, Lu and Luo, who are known as the "four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty"; Cen Can, Gao Shi and Wang Zhihuan, who are famous for frontier poems; Meng Haoran, famous for his landscape poems; In particular, Li Bai, a poet, Du Fu, a poet sage, and Bai Juyi, a popular poet, are even more brilliant.

The development of Tang poetry reached its peak. Five-character poems, seven-character poems and miscellaneous poems compete with each other like flowers in Wan Fang gardens. In particular, a new poetic style, metrical poetry, has emerged, which is even more dazzling.

Rhyme is a poetic style with strict metrical requirements. It has strict rules on the number of words, sentences, rhyming, leveling and antithesis. This poetic style is unprecedented. In order to show the difference from classical poetry, the Tang Dynasty called it modern poetry or modern poetry. Rhyme is the representative of Tang poetry, which was inherited by later poets. Although there are many excellent poems after the Tang Dynasty, there are basically no major new breakthroughs.