In the early years of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Zhenguan poems were mainly created by court poets around Emperor Taizong (Yang Shidao, Li Baiyao, Yu Shinan, etc.). ), and mostly for singing, the poetic style is gorgeous, which is called "Zhenguan poetic style".
Because most of the court literati in the Tang Taizong Dynasty experienced the process from the war at the end of Sui Dynasty to the national peace during Zhenguan period, although their works could not completely get rid of the influence of Sui Chen's court literature, they could subjectively ask to abandon Liang Chengong's delicate body and Yang Di's court literature.
Some of their creations show a certain momentum, but this momentum is moderately converged through rational balance. This is undoubtedly quite prescriptive to the development of literature in the Tang Dynasty, which is worthy of recognition. Shangguanti is a representative of court literature in the early Tang Dynasty. The representative figure is Shangguan Yi. He was the most famous court poet at that time, a descendant of Emperor Taizong and Emperor Gaozong.
His poems are characterized by strangeness and charm. At that time, many people rushed to imitate it, calling it Shangguan style. There are 20 existing poems, most of which are written by imperial edicts and orders, and their contents are monotonous. However, his contribution is to stylize the antithesis skills since the Six Dynasties, and put forward the theory of six pairs and eight pairs, which promoted the development and finalization of the metrical poems.
Wang Ji was an important poet outside the palace in the early Tang Dynasty. Wang Ji (585-644), a native of Taiyuan and Longmen, Jiangzhou (now Hejin, Shanxi), was the younger brother of Wang Tong, a Confucian at the end of Sui Dynasty. Wang Ji's poems present a different look from the palace-style poems that dominated the literary world at that time. His poems depict Tao Yuanming, and the language is simple, mainly expressing rural life and its feelings.
Brief introduction of Sui Dynasty and early Tang Dynasty
The Sui Dynasty was established by Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty, which unified the situation of the split between the Northern and Southern Dynasties and became the first unified dynasty in China history. The rulers of Sui Dynasty adopted a series of reform measures to strengthen centralization and promote the development of the country.
During the period of Yang Guang in Yang Di, there were many large-scale wars, such as attacking Koguryo and launching the southern expedition, but these wars consumed a lot of resources and manpower and caused a heavy burden to the country. In the end, due to the comprehensive effect of internal and external factors, the Sui Dynasty died in less than 40 years. The demise of the Sui Dynasty created opportunities for the establishment of the early Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty is one of the most glorious dynasties in the history of China, and it is also a period of openness, progress and prosperity. The early Tang Dynasty, that is, the period of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan and Emperor Taizong Li Shimin, was the foundation stage of the Tang Dynasty. Tang Dynasty was established after Li Yuan overthrew Sui Dynasty, but his reign was not long, and power was gradually transferred to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin was a wise ruler, who carried out a series of political, military and economic reforms and consolidated the dominant position of the Tang Dynasty. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty continued its campaign, expanded its territory, recovered the northern Hetao area, and established friendly relations with Tubo (Tibet).