The three masterpieces awarded by Emperor Wenzong of the Tang Dynasty are "Li Bai's Poems", "Pei Min's Sword Dance", and "Zhang Xu's Cursive Script".
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The three masterpieces of the Tang Dynasty , namely: "Li Bai's Poems", "Pei Min's Sword Dance" and "Zhang Xu's Cursive Script", which were issued by Tang Wenzong to the whole country.
1. Pei Min's Sword Dance
Pei Min, Tang Dynasty. A native of Kaiyuan, his sword dancing is also known as one of the "Three Wonders" of the Tang Dynasty. His swordsmanship can be compared with Li Bai's poems and Zhang Xu's wild grass, which shows that his skills are very superb.
According to "Duyi Zhi": "In the middle of Kaiyuan, General Pei Min was in mourning for his mother. Yi Daozi (painting sage Wu Daozi) asked him to paint several walls of gods and ghosts at Tiangong Temple in Dongdu to help the underworld. Daozi replied: "The paintings have been useless for a long time." If the general is interested, he will be entangled for me. A sword dance. ’ Because of the strong efforts, the common people can reach the netherworld. Min then took off his clothes and decorated them as usual.
The horse moves like flying, turning left and right, throwing the sword into the clouds, dozens of feet high, like lightning shooting down, holding the sheath in his hand, the sword penetrates into the air, thousands of people are watching, all of them are watching. Liang was frightened, so Daozi leaned against the wall, and the wind blew, making it a spectacular sight in the world. Painted by Daozi in his life. Nothing to be proud of. ”
According to "Records of Famous Paintings of the Past Dynasties", the painter Wu Daozi saw Pei Min dancing with his sword and "after the hauntings of gods and monsters were over, he made further progress with his brushstrokes." The poet Wang Wei once praised in a poem "Gift to General Pei Min": The sword on the waist has seven stars, and the bow is carved on the arm with hundreds of battles. When I heard about the capture of cunning prisoners in the clouds, I realized that there was a general in the sky.
2. Poems of Li Bai
Li Bai, also known as Taibai, also known as Qinglian Jushi, also known as "Exiled Immortal", is known as the "Poetry Immortal" and "Poetry Hero". His ancestral home was Longxi (now Gansu), but for unknown reasons he was relegated to Tiaozhi or Suiye until Li Bai was young, and then moved to Shu.
He "recited the Liujia at the age of five, and observed hundreds of schools of thought at the age of ten." Smiling and proud prince, free and uninhibited.
Li Bai's poems are mostly lyrical. He was the first poet who could truly absorb and improve extensively from the folk literature and art of the time and Yuefu folk songs since the Qin, Han and Wei Dynasties to form his own unique style. He has extraordinary artistic genius and majestic artistic power. All the surprising, exciting and thought-provoking phenomena can be traced back to the writing.
Du Fu has the comment that "when his pen falls in the storm, his poems become weeping ghosts and gods". He can be called the most outstanding romantic poet in my country after Qu Yuan. Li Bai's achievements in Yuefu, song lines and quatrains are the highest. The lines of his songs completely break all the inherent patterns of poetry creation. They are empty and have many styles of writing, reaching a magical realm of unpredictable and swaying at will.
Li Bai's quatrains are natural, lively, elegant and unrestrained, and can express endless emotions in concise and clear language. Among the poets of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei and Meng Haoran were good at the Five Jue, and Wang Changling and others were good at writing the Seven Jue. However, only Li Bai was good at both the Five Jue and the Seven Jue.