Why is the Tang Dynasty the heyday of poetry development?

There is a saying: Cang Li is full of etiquette, food and clothing, and sharing weal and woe. The Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous dynasty in the feudal history of China. People naturally want to engage in some hobbies when they are full of food and drink. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, China has started to create folk art represented by The Book of Songs. Tang poetry was developed on the basis of combining the national conditions of various dynasties, which was adapted to the economic development. On the other hand, the Tang Dynasty was also an era full of contradictions. The rapid change from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty made the literati fu have to lament the national disaster and associate it with the prosperous times. This contradiction is precisely the greatest driving force for the creation of literature.

The success of Tang poetry is not accidental. On the one hand, China's literary attainments have developed to a certain extent in the Tang Dynasty. Under the prosperous Tang Dynasty, most people have the conditions to travel and lament the grandeur or lofty aspirations of the mountains and rivers, and naturally they feel it, forming a poetic form of Tang poetry. We can see that Li Bai, an immortal poet, was a representative poet in the Tang Dynasty. How did the water of the Yellow River move out of heaven and into the ocean, and never return? This was undoubtedly Li Bai's ambition for himself and the country at that time.

The prosperity of Tang poetry lies in its social contradictions. No matter how prosperous the country is, it will eventually decline. Social unrest is in stark contrast to the previous scenes of national prosperity and national security. How happy you are, how miserable you are. Poets who have experienced the prosperous times are deeply moved by this scene, so that thousands of thoughts will blurt out their own poems. Du Fu's: Although the country is divided, the mountains and rivers remain forever, and the vegetation is spring, which is an eternal contradiction and contrast. The mountains and rivers are still there, and the country is ruined. Spring has come, but those busy families in the past were covered with vegetation. This contradiction sometimes becomes the emotional source of Tang poetry.

In short, the prosperity of Tang poetry can not be separated from the foreshadowing of the previous generation, which had a variety of poetic styles, such as five words and seven words, which coincided with the academic freedom of the Tang Dynasty and gave intellectuals the opportunity to create, so it is not surprising that Tang poetry flourished.