The artistic achievements of Tang poetry are reflected in three aspects:
1. In terms of quantity, only according to the "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty" compiled during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, there are poets There are more than 2,200 people, with more than 48,900 works and 900 volumes. According to Hu Zhenheng’s statistics, there are 691 families with separate collections. This phenomenon is unprecedented.
2. In terms of quality, the Tang Dynasty not only had great poets like Li Bai and Du Fu, but also a large number of outstanding poets such as Wang Wei, Bai Juyi, Li He, Li Shangyin, and Du Mu. The level of Tang poetry exceeded any other in Chinese history. An era.
3. In terms of form, there are a wide range of poetry styles and many genres. Three-character, four-character, five-character, six-character, seven-character, miscellaneous words, Yuefu, songxing, and modern styles. , quatrains, new Yuefu, etc.; in addition to the landscape poetry school, frontier fortress poetry, Wubai school and other major poetry schools, there are also many unique poets, which makes Tang poetry present a prosperous situation where a hundred flowers bloom.
China The development of classical poetry reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty. The Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty alone contains nearly 50,000 poems, with more than 2,200 named authors. Li Bai, Du Fu and other world-famous poets Poets and a large number of famous people have emerged. Various styles and schools have flourished. Both in terms of subject matter and content, as well as in terms of artistic expression, as well as the completion and finalization of various poetry systems, it shows that poetry creation has become fully mature and grand. Unprecedented.
The reason why Tang poetry can achieve such high achievements is due to many factors. The development and reform of feudal economy and politics prompted huge changes in the entire social life, thus opening up new possibilities for poetry creation. The source of it provides new material.
Tang poetry broke through the limitations of most poetry in the late Six Dynasties to mystical language, landscape, palace style, or expressed frustration and depression in a small circle, and widely reflected social class contradictions and People's livelihood sufferings, court affairs and local unrest, frontier wars and ethnic customs, urban life and pastoral scenery, as well as ethics, family status, love, marriage, merchants, handicraft workers, etc., the breadth of its summary and the depth of its expression are all Unprecedented.
The changes in feudal economy and politics pushed the poor families of the common people onto the stage of history. They became the most active force in political life and the main creative group of Tang poetry. Generally speaking, the common people's literati Their vision is relatively broad. Due to their low social status and difficult life, some literati have relatively close contact and contact with the working people, which is reflected in their poetry creation.
The prosperity of Tang poetry is the same as that of the Tang Dynasty. It is also closely related to the relative emancipation of social thought. The rulers of the Tang Dynasty had a certain degree of confidence in their own rule, and at the same time they needed to coordinate internal contradictions to facilitate long-term peace and order. Therefore, they adopted a relatively open and liberal policy in terms of ideology, and adopted a relatively open and liberal policy towards Confucianism and Buddhism. The thoughts of various schools of thought of Taoism and Taoism were inclusive, and sometimes allowed and encouraged people to criticize current affairs; this played a positive role in lifting the ideological constraints of people at the time and promoting the free play of poetry creation.
The prosperity of Tang poetry, It was also the product of the general prosperity of culture and art in the Tang Dynasty. The relative popularization of culture at that time and the expansion of the mass base of poetry brought new vitality to poetry creation. The full development of various literary and artistic forms in the Tang Dynasty also gave poetry a multi-faceted influence. Ancient prose Stories in sports, legendary novels, Buddhist scriptures, and bianwen contributed to the special tendencies of poetry after the mid-Tang Dynasty, such as prose, storytelling, and mystery. The new realm, as well as the implementation of the system of selecting scholars for poetry and poetry, will naturally affect poetry.
The great achievements of the Tang Dynasty were also the result of the Tang Dynasty poets' multi-faceted criticism and inheritance of literary heritage, and the innovation of the old. The development of classical poetry in my country has a history of more than 1,600 years from the beginning of the Book of Songs to the Tang Dynasty. The rich creative experience of the predecessors has been fully absorbed by Tang poetry, which reflects the style of the masters of Tang poetry.