Poetry in the Tang Dynasty was unprecedented and reached the peak of China's classical poetry. Tang poetry has a wide range of themes, schools, styles, popular authors and wide spread, which is beyond the reach of predecessors and can only be imitated by future generations.
Regardless of political life, singing history, funeral march in the Deep Palace, frontier bonfires, pastoral landscapes, love songs, vagrancy, chess, calligraphy and painting, etc. , can be described and sung in poetry, and excellent works have appeared.
The representative novels of the Tang Dynasty are short stories that pursue "Tang legend" and "strangeness". Outstanding representative works include Biography of Yuan Zhen, Biography of Li Wa by Bai Xingjian, Biography of Song of Eternal Sorrow by Chen Hong, Biography of Liu Yi by Li and Biography of Huo Xiaoyu. The birth of "legendary" literature in the Tang Dynasty marked the beginning of the maturity of novels.
The word "drama" came into being in the Tang Dynasty. Drama in the Tang Dynasty is mainly "all-around drama, song and dance drama, military drama and puppet show". Influenced by western drama, Tang drama absorbed the nutrition of ancient Indian Brahma drama, formed Tang drama, and spread to Korean Peninsula and ancient Japan.