The images of missing women in Tang poetry are also extremely rich, mainly including poems about boudoir and palace resentment.
Poems about boudoir’s resentment belong to Han classical poetry, mainly concentrated in this period of the Tang Dynasty, among which there is a special category called poems about boudoir’s resentment. Poems about boudoir resentment mainly express the sadness of abandoned and missing wives (including married women, merchant wives, wandering wives, etc.) in ancient folk, or the feelings of young girls who are pregnant with their children and miss their lovers.
Poetry about boudoir resentment is a very unique category in Han classical poetry. Generally speaking, it describes the sorrow and resentment of young women and girls in their boudoir. Some of these poems were written by women themselves, while others were written by men imitating women's voices. Women themselves have the temperament of a poet, with delicate emotions and easy poetry. Adding some resentment makes people even more pitiful.
A happy woman may have less poetic meaning in her body; a woman with delicate emotions but in a bad situation may have more poetic meaning in her body. When she is missing her husband or lover, the poem has more meaning, is more touching and touching.
Representative works of palace poetry in the Tang Dynasty:
Poets in the Tang Dynasty wrote a large number of palace resentment poems. But it is different from the palace-style poems in the Six Dynasties and the early Tang Dynasty that specifically describe the luxurious life in the palace. Instead, it focuses on describing the resentment of palace ladies. Bai Juyi's "The White-haired Man in Shangyang", "Concubine in the Cemetery", and "Ci of the Harem".
"Spring Resentment" by Liu Fangping, "Gong Ci" by Gu Kuang, Liu Yuxi and Zhu Qingyu, "Autumn Night Song" by Wang Wei, "Autumn Eve" by Du Mu, "Resentment on the Jade Steps" by Li Bai, Xie Look at "The Resentment of the Jade Steps" and so on, there are too many to mention. Wang Changling, a master of quatrains, even wrote the famous "Spring Resentment of the West Palace" and "Chang Xin Qiu Ci". Most of these palace resentment poems describe the miserable life and mental pain of the palace ladies (or concubines) from different angles.
However, they have one thing in common. They all attribute the resentment of the palace concubines to the resentment caused by falling out of favor or not being favored, and they only reveal a corner of the palace ladies' lives. Or put it very implicitly.