The poetic style of an era has an important relationship with its social environment. The early Tang Dynasty has a history of about 100 years. At that time, most poems were about heroes. Because of the social stability and prosperity, poets created a healthy new poetic style with heroic poems. The four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty were typical symbols at that time.
In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, although the time was relatively short, the achievements of poetry can be said to be the peak period. Poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu and Wang Wei are typical.
Taking the Anshi Rebellion as the boundary, after the Anshi Rebellion, it reached the middle of Tang poetry, and the number of poems at that time can be said to be the largest in Tang poetry. It accounts for almost two-thirds of Tang poetry.
Today, let's look at the poems of Li Bai and Du Fu. In everyone's eyes, the poet Li Bai seems to be always romantic, but the poet Du Fu feels so vicissitudes. Du Fu was also very romantic when he was young. He thought of Du Fu, who failed in the imperial examination in Sun Shan, standing on Mount Tai and shouting: He will climb to the top, and all other mountains look small under the sky ... vowing to stand on the top of Mount Tai and despise everything.
Later, the An Shi Rebellion broke out, taking away the romanticism in Du Fu's poems, and Du Fu became a realistic poet. Most of Li Bai's poems and songs were in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, mainly expressing personal feelings, singing freedom and ideal romance. But his poems are too gorgeous and get rid of realism. Du Fu's poems describe the country's worries and sympathy for the people's hard life, and describe the realism of life, which is also inseparable from the important symbol that the outbreak of An Shi Rebellion turned the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline. From Du Fu's poems, we can feel that the author has a very heavy sense of responsibility for society.