In order to surpass the achievements of our ancestors, we must find another way, so the Song people linked poetry with songs and developed the theme of ci into a literary symbol in the Song Dynasty.
Tang poetry and Song ci are two different literary genres, and Song ci did not originate from Tang poetry.
1 Tang poetry
The Tang Dynasty (AD 6 18-907) was the heyday of the development of classical poetry in China. Tang poetry is one of China's outstanding literary heritages and a bright pearl in the treasure house of world literature. Although it has been more than 1000 years, many poems are still widely circulated by us.
There were many poets in the Tang Dynasty. Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi are world-famous great poets. Besides them, there are countless other poets, just like the stars in the sky. Today, there are more than 2,300 famous poets. More than 48,900 of their works have been preserved in the whole Tang poetry. Tang poetry has a wide range of subjects. Some of them reflected the class status and class contradictions of the society at that time, and revealed. Some praise the just war and express patriotic thoughts.
Song ci is another literary school after Tang poetry, which is basically divided into two categories: graceful school and wild school.
In the early days, ci was very flashy and popular in street restaurants. For example, Liu Yong offended the emperor at that time because he wrote "and changed his name to shallow singing", and he was depressed and frustrated. He wandered between karaoke bars and brothels all his life, writing lyrics for prostitutes. The so-called "where there is well water to drink, there must be Liu Ci", so that a prime minister of the Song Dynasty (I don't remember the name, it seems that. He denied that he had written all the words before. As we all know, there were many prostitutes in the Song Dynasty, and their level was rare in other dynasties. Together with the literati of the Song Dynasty, they formed the hedonism and vanity culture of the Song Dynasty.