1, Changes in the theme of poetry: During the Yuan and Zhongxing periods, social contradictions gradually deepened and people's livelihood issues became increasingly prominent. During this period, the theme of poetry changed obviously, and poets began to pay more attention to social reality and people's livelihood issues, and the content of poetry was closer to people's lives, showing a strong realistic spirit.
2. Diversification of poetic style: Before Yuan Zhongxing, the poetry in the middle Tang Dynasty mainly inherited the poetic style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, mainly romanticism. With the development of the times, the poetic style began to diversify, and vernacular poems represented by Bai Juyi and strange poems represented by Han Yu appeared. These poems with different styles enrich the artistic forms of poetry in the middle Tang Dynasty.
3. Deep ideological content: During the period of Yuan and Zhongxing, the society was in turmoil, and the literati expressed their profound thoughts on the changes of the times and their feelings about personal destiny in their poems. During this period, the ideological content of poetry was more in-depth, and poets paid more attention to the exploration and expression of inner world.
4. Pay attention to social reality: During the Yuan and Zhongxing periods, social contradictions intensified and people's livelihood issues became prominent. Poetry in this period paid more attention to social reality, reflected the hardships and struggles of people's lives, and showed the poet's deep sympathy for people's sufferings and deep reflection on social reality.
The characteristics of poetry in the middle Tang Dynasty;
1. Style diversification: The poetic style in the middle Tang Dynasty began to show a diversified trend, including vigorous and unrestrained poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and delicate and graceful expressions. For example, Bai Juyi's poems are plain and popular in language, sincere in emotion, and have a wide range of themes, both bold and open masculinity and delicate and feminine.
2. Reflect social reality: Poetry in the middle Tang Dynasty pays more attention to reflecting social reality, especially the intensification of social contradictions and the suffering of people's lives. For example, Du Fu's poems, such as Car Shop, Three Officials and Three Farewells, profoundly reveal the pain and disaster brought by the war to the people and express the poet's deep sympathy for the people's sufferings.
3. Pursuit of artistic innovation: The poems in the middle Tang Dynasty were also innovative in artistic techniques. For example, Li He's poems create a mysterious and quiet artistic realm with strange imagination and surreal artistic conception. At the same time, the language skills of poems in the middle Tang Dynasty are more exquisite, which is manifested in Jia Dao's mastery of allusions and his more careful consideration and tempering of words.