The first stage of Zhenguan’s rule. The Zhenguan period was a period when the Tang Dynasty was establishing its foundation and striving to consolidate it. The main content of the court poetry at that time was to praise the saints, polish the great industry, and learn from the Sui Dynasty, and to advise and allegorize. The style of poetry began to change from the Six Dynasties to the gorgeous. Elegance neutralizes transformation. Most of this large number of court literati were senior officials.
They were deeply surrounded by Taizong, deeply appreciated, held important positions, and participated in the major political and cultural academic construction of the new dynasty. They not only made significant contributions to the realization of the Zhenguan rule, but also formed the political system at that time. Literary centers, with their relatively distinctive literary concepts and a large number of palace poems, led the main trend of literary creation at that time. Among them, the most accomplished poets should be Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Yu Shinan, Wei Zheng, Li Baiyao and others.
The second stage is the Longshuo period. Shangguanyi's innovation in the poetry system mainly lies in the exquisiteness and exquisiteness of the objects and images. With his highly proficient skills, he diluted the relief and carvings of Qi and Liang poetry styles, but the subject matter and content of the poems were still limited to the scope of chanting objects that should be produced in court literature, and lacked generosity, passion and heroism.
The third stage is the late period of Wu Zetian. Two large groups of court poems appeared, "Four Friends of Articles" and "Shen Song Dynasty". The four friends in the article refer to Du Shenyan, Li Qiao, Cui Rong, and Su Weiwei, referred to as "Cui Li Su Du". Their literary creations mainly rely on large numbers and large proportions.
The role of palace poetry
From the perspective of the history of poetry development, the role of palace poetry has two aspects. On the one hand, the poetry style in the Sui and early Tang Dynasties declined, which was somewhat influenced by it; on the other hand, it became more rhythmic in form.
According to statistics from some scholars, about 40% of palace-style poems conform to the rhythm of rhyme poetry; the number that basically conforms to it is especially large. This shows that palace poetry played an important role in promoting the form of later rhythmic poetry. As for its many allusions and gorgeous rhetoric, it also had a certain positive effect on later generations. For example, the poems of Li He and Li Shangyin in the Tang Dynasty obviously absorbed some techniques from palace poetry.