Landscape pastoral poetry school is one of the two major poetry schools in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. This school of poetry is the successor of Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun and Xie Yao. The poets of this school are famous for being good at depicting pastoral scenery, and their artistic styles are close. They reflect their quiet mood or quiet thoughts by depicting quiet scenery, so they are called "pastoral poets". Its main author is Meng.
Meng Haoran's pastoral poems were mostly written in the form of five-character poems, which were very famous at that time. In his poems, there are descriptions of magnificent mountains and rivers, descriptions of secluded mountain forests, descriptions of travel scenes, and reflections on rural farmers' lives, such as
Wang Wei is the most accomplished poet among the pastoral poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. His poems are poetic and picturesque. Su Shi, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, once spoke highly of them: "There are paintings in poetry". Since then, "painting in poetry" has become the final evaluation of Wang Wei's poetry.
Wang Wei's pastoral poems vary widely, with different styles and artistic conception. They are sometimes magnificent, sometimes detailed and intriguing, sometimes vivid and vivid, and sometimes subtle and concise. Wang Wei is also good at vividly expressing natural scenery with various colors, such as "the grass in the rain is green and the peach blossoms on the water are red." "Gray rain curtain, green grass and pink peach blossom interweave into a colorful spring dawn picture of mountains and rivers, which is really picturesque in poetry", which is intoxicating.
Gao Cen Frontier Poetry School
Poetic schools in China in Tang Dynasty. It mainly describes the frontier fortress scenery and reflects the life of frontier fortress soldiers. During the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, some frontier poems appeared, and the number increased continuously in Sui Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty, Sijie and Chen Ziang further developed it and reached full maturity in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Gao Shi, Li Jie and Wang Changling are the most famous poets in this school, while Gao and Cen have the highest achievements. Others such as Wang Zhihuan, William Wang, Cui Hao, Liu Wan and Zhang Wei are also famous. Most of these poets had frontier fortress life experience, and they profoundly expressed frontier fortress life from all aspects, and also made some innovations in art. They not only described the magnificent desolate and colorful frontier fortress scenery, but also expressed their lofty aspirations and thoughts and feelings of inviting people to abandon their wives and children. Attitudes towards war are mixed, with curses and condemnations, and often reach a certain depth in thought. His poems are generous in emotion, rich in atmosphere and rich in artistic conception, and often take the form of seven-character poems and seven-character quatrains. Excellent works such as Ge Yanxing by Gao Shi and The Journey to the West by Cen Can. In addition, Lu Lun and Li Yi in the middle Tang Dynasty also had some desolate frontier quatrains.