The overall characteristics of Tang poetry;
1. Spiritual beauty: The Tang Dynasty was a big country with great tolerance, with exchanges between China and foreign countries and coexistence of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The poet's creative space is relaxed, and he can "sleep in a restaurant in Chang 'an, but the son of heaven can't get on the boat" (Du Fu's Song of Drinking Eight Immortals).
At that time, all the poets were a little pretentious, hoping to do something: "Dapeng rises with the wind one day, and really rises to Wan Li" (Li Bai's Li Yong): "Once you reach the top, you will soon see that other mountains are dwarfed under the sky." (Du Fu's "Looking at Yue") The poets at that time were all in high spirits.
It is precisely because of the relatively free air, tolerance and spirit in the Tang Dynasty that they can freely transform their spiritual feelings and inner essential strength into beautiful artistic images, and poets can project all their essential strength into them, so that they can produce full and brilliant beauty.
2. Musical beauty: China's ancient poems have always been combined with music. There are 300 poems, all of which are very harmonious. The rhythm of poetry fluctuates with the rhythm of feelings. This kind of emotional rhythm is full of music.
Paying attention to rhythm is an important feature of China's poems. Tang poetry pays great attention to rhythm, so it has the beauty of music and is catchy to read.
We read Meng Haoran's "Spring Dawn": "I woke up easily on this morning in spring, and birds were singing everywhere. A night of wind and rain, how many flowers fall. " Like running water, I feel the sound everywhere, which is not only catchy, but also has infinite charm, making people feel the beauty of a kind of music!
3. Architectural beauty: The so-called architectural beauty means that Tang poetry, like architecture, is good at transforming the time art that originally passed in chronological order into a three-dimensional sense of space through the description and combination of specific images.
Du Fu's "The Stars Bow from the Open, and the Moon Flows Up the River" (One Night in a Foreign Country) and Wang Wei's "The Lonely Smoke in the Desert sets the yen" (Make it a fortress) both turn the dynamic into the static, and transform the spectacular universe into a three-dimensional image that stands like a building. However, there is movement in silence, but there is space in reality.
Tang poetry also has such characteristics. The name it describes is a concrete image, but it shows infinite poetic thoughts and feelings. The poet just juxtaposes them without any analytical explanation, but when we read them, we will naturally have some profound and lasting feelings. The architectural beauty of Tang poetry comes from the listing and combination of this specific image.
4. Beauty of personality: Poetry is the expression of free mind and must have personality. The beauty of Tang poetry also lies in its personality. Personality begins with self-awakening. Poets are good at looking at the world with their own unique life characteristics. Poets in the Tang Dynasty, such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Meng Haoran, Cen Can, etc., are all noble people, so they are good at seeing the beauty of the world.
Reflected in poetry, it becomes the personality beauty of Tang poetry. Li Bai is the most individual, so his poems are particularly beautiful. "But before he conquered, he died, and since then, heroes have been crying on their coats." These famous sayings, in particular, integrate their unique feelings into social phenomena or historical experiences, refine them, and then express them in their own unique emotional way, becoming eternal images.
5. Artistic conception beauty: If the beauty of personality is a sign of the spiritual maturity of a poet, then the beauty of artistic conception is a sign of the artistic maturity of a poem. Every successful poem should be a self-contained art world.
With such an artistic world, there will be artistic conception. Literature and art should create images, and poetry should also create images. But the image of poetry is not a complete dramatic action and character, but just an artistic conception. Artistic conception is the poet's thoughts and feelings that move from the outside to the inside, condensed into an artistic image and turned into a deep and eternal picture of scene blending.