Early Tang Dynasty: advocating Jian 'an's poetic style and denouncing Qi Liang's poetic style: In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, great poets came forth in large numbers with diverse styles and a wide range of subjects. Mid-Tang Dynasty: Poetry has the largest number and genre. The grim and cold reality makes the mainstream of poetry turn to realism; Late Tang Dynasty: Realistic poetry continued to develop during this period, and Li Shangyin's and Du Mu's poems were full of dreamy artistic conception in the twilight, and the prose represented a rich and delicate formalism poetry style.
1. Introduction to Tang Poetry
Tang poetry generally refers to the poems written by poets in the Tang Dynasty, which is a masterpiece 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.
2. Formal style
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.
3. Songs in the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty
In the middle and late Tang dynasty, the heyday of the dynasty has passed, but poetry creation has not declined. Outstanding poets with different styles have emerged, such as Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Zhang Ji, Li He, Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen, Liu Yuxi, Du Mu, Li Shangyin, Wen and Du Xunhe. Their poems reflect the crisis and folk sufferings in the decline of the Tang Dynasty empire from different angles, and their artistic achievements are very high, which have a great influence on future generations.