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.
There are various forms of Tang poetry. There are basically two kinds of ancient poems in Tang Dynasty: five-character poems and seven-character poems. 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. There were many poets in the Tang Dynasty. "Four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty" refers to four famous poets: Yang Jiong, Lu and Luo.
During the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years of the Tang Dynasty, there appeared the great romantic poet Li Bai and the great realistic poet Du Fu, and formed the pastoral poetry school represented by Wang Wei and Meng Haoran and the frontier poetry school represented by Gao Shi and Cen Can.
Bai Juyi was the main leader of the "New Yuefu" movement in the middle Tang Dynasty. He wrote ten Qin Zhongyin and fifty "New Yuefu" poems, including Poems of Bai Changqing. Du Mu, also known as "Xiao Du", has made great artistic achievements in some of his most outstanding lyric seven wonders (such as Mountain Walking and Bo Qinhuai). We also learned his Epang Palace Fu. Li Shangyin is a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty. His homesickness poems, epics and love poems are the most distinctive, such as Leyou Tombs, Untitled and Li Yishan's Poems.