Tang poetry is one of China's outstanding literary heritages and a bright pearl in the world literature treasure house.
Although it has been over 1000 years, many poems have been widely circulated by us.
The Tang Dynasty was an unprecedentedly powerful unified empire in the history of China (with a territory of about 1 1 over ten thousand square kilometers).
And it was the most advanced and civilized country in the world at that time! In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, not only material wealth and prosperity, but also culture was extremely prosperous, especially poetry. This is a highly mature golden age in the history of China's poetry.
According to the incomplete statistics of Complete Tang Poems, during the 289 years of the Tang Dynasty, there were more than 2,300 poets who produced at least famous poems and nearly 50,000 poems.
This is two or three times more than the total number of poems left over from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties in 16700! Among more than 2,000 famous poets, besides Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi and Wang Wei, there are fifty or sixty famous poets with unique styles. It greatly exceeds the sum of famous poets from the Warring States to the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Even Lu Xun said, "I thought all the good poems were written in the Tang Dynasty, and then there was no need to start work unless the Tathagata' the Monkey King' was dug up."
Of course, this does not mean that there are no good poems after the Tang Dynasty; I really have to read Tang poetry first, because later generations write ancient poems.
Tang poetry represents the highest achievement of China's poetry, which is undoubtedly a highlight in the literary world of China and even the world! It is also the most literary peak in the history of world cultural development.
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