The Tang Dynasty is regarded as the dynasty with the richest old poems in China, so it is called "Yuan Qu of Tang Poetry and Song Poetry".
Most of the Tang poems are included in The Complete Poems of Tang Poetry. Since the Tang Dynasty, anthologies of Tang poetry have emerged continuously, and the most widely spread is "Three Hundred Tang Poems" compiled by retired scholars in Hengtang.
The creation of Tang poetry can be divided into four stages according to time: early Tang, prosperous Tang, middle Tang and late Tang.
Poets in the early Tang Dynasty inherited the palace poems of the Southern Dynasties, with beautiful ci style, represented by Shangguan style. The main poets are Li Shimin, Yu Shinan, Yan Liang, Li Baiyao, Shangguan Yi and Shangguan Waner.
In the middle Tang Dynasty, the poets were represented by the four friends of the article, namely Li Qiao, Su Weidao, Cui Rong and Du Fu.
The representative figures of Shen Songti are Shen Quanqi and Song.
On the one hand, they are contaminated with the habits of palace poems, on the other hand, they have written some good poems describing their feelings.
Mainly Wang Jihe, Yang Jiong, Lu and four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty. They swept away the lazy style of court poems and described real life.
Tang Sheng
There were many schools of poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Jiuling, Wang Wan, four friends of Wuzhong, He, Bao Rong, Zhang Xu.
Pastoral schools include Meng Haoran, Wang Wei, Chu Guangxi, Chang Jian, Zuyong, Qi, and so on.
Frontier poets include Gao Shi, Cen Can, Wang Changling, Wang Zhihuan, Cui Hao and Li Qi.
Li Bai is known as an immortal poet. He created a large number of political lyric poems, which fully demonstrated the poet's extraordinary ambition, unrestrained * * * and chivalrous spirit, and also embodied the typical tone of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Du Fu is known as the sage of poetry, and his poems are mostly about social unrest, political darkness and people's sufferings, which is known as the history of poetry.
He is the pioneer of the new Yuefu poetry style.
His Yuefu poems contributed to the development of the new Yuefu movement in the middle Tang Dynasty.
Together, they are called Du Li.
Tang Zhong
Jie Yuan, Gu Kuang Zhi, Rong Hong and Dai Shulun, poets of Yuefu in the middle and early Tang Dynasty, inherited the spirit of Du Fu's Yuefu poems, and created poems accusing court officials and expressing people's sufferings.
After Wang Meng in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the water poems in Middle Tangshan also developed. The main poets are Liu Changqing and Wei.
At this time, frontier poems are still continuing, and the representative poets are Li Yi and Lu Lun.
Ten talented people in Dali include Qian Qi, Lu Lun, Ji Zhongfu, Han Yi, Si Kongshu, Miao Fa, Cui Dong, Geng Biao, Xia Houshen and Li Duan.
Their poems rarely reflect social unrest and people's sufferings, and most of them are sung in harmony.
The basic themes of their poems are praising the peaceful rise, mountains and rivers and seclusion.
late tang dynasty
There were two schools of poetry in the early stage of the late Tang Dynasty. Du Mu, Zhang Hu, Xu Hun, Zhao Wei, Ma Dai, Liu Cang and others are heroic, healthy and sad, and often express their feelings of indifference in historical mourning.
Li Shangyin, Wen, Duan and others wrote many colorful works, which started the gorgeous poetic style of saving the poor and dying since Meng Jiao and Jia Dao.
Du Mu and Li Shangyin are both called "Little Du Li", and Li Bai and Du Fu, who are different from the middle Tang Dynasty, are outstanding poets in the late Tang Dynasty.
Du is calm, sad and heroic, while Li Shangyin belongs to melancholy, profound thinking and forms his own family.
Poetry in the late Tang Dynasty is also divided into two factions. One is Luo Yin, Nie, Du Xunhe, Pi Rixiu, Lu Guimeng and other cynical poets.
A group of beautiful poets include Wei Zhuang, Si Kongtu, Zheng Gu and Han Wo.
They are all good at close body, generally more slender and less simple, more straightforward and less subtle, more beautiful sentences and less articles, more carvings and less harmony.