What is the significance and historical position of 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 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."
Tang poetry (commonly known as Tang poetry) refers to the poems written by poets in the Tang Dynasty, which is the crystallization of the wisdom of Confucian scholars in the Tang Dynasty. Tang poetry is one of the precious cultural heritages of the Chinese nation and a pearl in the treasure house of Chinese culture. At the same time, it has had a great influence on the cultural development of many countries in the world, and has important reference significance for future generations to study the politics, people's feelings, customs and culture of the Tang Dynasty.
There are various forms of Tang poetry. There are mainly five-character poems and seven-character poems in Tang Dynasty. There are also two kinds of modern poems, one is called quatrains, and the other is called metrical poems. Quatrains and metrical poems are five words and seven words respectively. Therefore, there are basically six basic forms of Tang poetry: five-character archaic poetry, seven-character archaic poetry, five-character quatrains, seven-character quatrains, five-character rhythmic poems and seven-character rhythmic poems.
Classical poetry has a wide range of requirements for rhyme and meter: in a poem, the number of sentences can be more or less, the chapters can be long or short, and the rhyme can be changed. Modern poetry has strict requirements on rhyme and meter: the number of sentences in a poem is limited, that is, four-line quatrains and eight-line meter poems. The words used in each poem have certain rules, and the rhyme cannot be changed; Rhyme also requires that the middle four sentences become antithesis. The style of ancient poetry is handed down from the previous generation, so it is also called ancient style. Modern poetry has strict rules, so some people call it metrical poetry.