1. In terms of quantity, according to the statistics of Complete Tang Poetry compiled by Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, there are more than 2,200 poets, with more than 48,900 works and 900 volumes of * * *. According to Hu Zhenheng's statistics, there are 69 1 ant scientists. This phenomenon is unprecedented.
2. As far as quality is concerned, there are not only great poets such as Li Bai and Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty, but also a large number of outstanding poets such as Wang Wei, Bai Juyi, Li He, Li Shangyin and Du Mu. The level of Tang poetry surpassed that of any period in China's history.
3. From the formal point of view, the poetic style is well prepared and there are many schools. Three words, four words, five words, six words, seven words, miscellaneous words, Yuefu, Gexing, modern poetry, quatrains and new Yuefu are all available; In addition to the school of landscape poetry, the school of frontier poetry and the school of poetry without white, there are many unique poets, which make the Tang poetry present a prosperous situation.
The development of China's classical poetry reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty. There are nearly 50,000 Poems of the Whole Tang Dynasty alone, and there are more than 2,200 authors with names to test. Great poets such as Li Bai and Du Fu and a large number of famous artists with world reputation have emerged. A variety of styles and schools are blooming, whether it is the theme content or artistic expression, coupled with the completeness and stereotypes of various poetry systems, it shows that the creation of poetry is completely mature and unprecedented.
There are many reasons why Tang poetry can achieve such high achievements. The development and changes of feudal economy and politics have prompted great changes in the whole social life, thus opening up new sources and providing new materials for poetry creation.
Tang poetry broke through the small circle in which most of the poems in the late Six Dynasties were confined to mysterious words, landscapes and palace styles, or described people's frustration and depression, and widely reflected social class contradictions and people's livelihood sufferings, government affairs and local turmoil, frontier wars and national customs, urban life and rural scenery, as well as ethics, family, love, marriage, businessmen and craftsmen. The breadth and depth of its generalization is unprecedented.
The changes of feudal economy and politics pushed the poor families of ordinary people onto the historical stage. They became the most active force in political life and the main creative group of Tang poetry. Generally speaking, Buyi literati have a broad vision, and some of them have close contact and contact with working people because of their low social status and poor life, which is reflected in their poetry creation.
The prosperity of Tang poetry is also closely related to the liberation of social thought in Tang dynasty. The rulers of the Tang Dynasty have certain confidence in their own rule, and at the same time they need to coordinate internal contradictions in order to facilitate long-term stability. Therefore, they adopted a relatively open and free policy in terms of ideological convenience, accommodating Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and sometimes allowing and encouraging people to criticize current politics. This has played a positive role in lifting the ideological shackles of contemporary people and promoting the free play of poetry creation.
The prosperity of Tang poetry is also the product of the general prosperity of culture and art in Tang Dynasty. At that time, the relative popularization of culture and the expansion of the mass base of poetry brought new vitality to poetry creation. The full development of various literary and artistic forms in the Tang Dynasty also influenced poetry in many ways. The ancient prose movement, legendary novels, Buddhist stories and essays contributed to the special tendency of poetry after the middle Tang Dynasty, such as prose, storytelling and mystery. The rise of Qu Zi's Ci opened up a new realm for the late Tang Dynasty prose and Li's poetry, and the implementation of the poetry selection system will naturally have an impact on poetry.
The great achievements of Tang literature are the result of the poet's criticism, inheritance and innovation of literary heritage in many aspects. The development of China's classical poetry has a history of more than 1,600 years from The Book of Songs to the Tang Dynasty. Tang poetry fully absorbs the rich creative experience of predecessors and embodies the style of Tang poetry.
Of course, the poets in the Tang Dynasty did not blindly treat the literary heritage, but sublated it. In the early Tang Dynasty, several generations of poets struggled for a long time against the tendency of attaching importance to form and neglecting content in the poems of the Six Dynasties, especially the bad influence on the poems of Qi Liang and Chen Gong, and finally basically broke away from the old shackles and opened up a new situation. However, when denying and reforming the old ethos, we do not exclude useful writing skills; This is also an important reason why Tang poetry can stride beyond tradition.