What influence did the social environment of the Tang Dynasty have on the emergence of Tang poetry?

After the establishment of the Tang Empire, political stability was maintained for a long time, economy was restored and developed, and culture reached unprecedented prosperity. The whole country presents a good situation of vigorous development, creating a good social environment for poetry creation. In the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination emphasized poetry and fu, and intellectuals had to be able to write poems if they wanted to be officials, which also promoted poetry creation. As far as poetry itself is concerned, the five-character poems, seven-character classical poems and Yuefu songs in the Tang Dynasty have further matured, and the five-character poems and seven-character quatrains that emphasize tone and rhythm have finally formed, and the forms of poetry have also blossomed.

During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, many poets pushed their poetry creation to the peak, and the magnificent mountains and rivers, beautiful countryside, prosperous cities, desolate frontier fortress and bitter war were all fully expressed in their poems. In particular, Li Bai's romantic poems, which are full of wild passion and fiercely attack reality, and Du Fu's realistic poems, which care about the fate of the country and sympathize with the sufferings of people's livelihood, represent the highest achievements of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Tang poetry is a treasure of China culture. The Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty was compiled during the reign of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, and included more than 48,900 poems by more than 2,200 authors. In less than 300 years, leaving such a rich cultural heritage is unique in the history of world literature. Among them, quite a few excellent poems have conquered the readers of all ages with colorful artistic charm and have been handed down from generation to generation for a long time.