What are the characteristics of Tang poetry?

Characteristics of Tang poetry: 1, large quantity: the whole Tang poetry was compiled in Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty, and more than 48,900 poems were collected. Books in the Tang Dynasty were mainly copied by hand. After eight centuries, there are still nearly 50 thousand works handed down from generation to generation, which shows that these works have withstood the test of the times. 2. Complete system: Yuefu, classical poems (including five words, seven words, miscellaneous words and four words), quatrains and metrical poems all matured in the Tang Dynasty, and a large number of excellent works appeared. Some people write Chu Ci, and some poems give birth to the genre of "Ci".

Authors range from emperors to generals, to vendors, servants, advocates, from old people to children of several years old, and foreign authors. Among them, the album handed down from ancient times is 69 1 piece (statistics of Ming dynasty). 4. Various themes: politics, economy, war, religion, court, bureaucracy, imperial examination, marriage, affection, friendship, tourism, homesickness, landscape, pastoral, flora and fauna, and other aspects of social and natural phenomena are written in Tang poetry.

There are various forms of Tang poetry. There are mainly five-character poems and seven-character poems in Tang Dynasty. There are also two kinds of modern poems, one is called quatrains, and the other is called metrical poems. Quatrains and metrical poems are five words and seven words respectively. Therefore, there are basically six basic forms of Tang poetry: five-character archaic poetry, seven-character archaic poetry, five-character quatrains, seven-character quatrains, five-character rhythmic poems and seven-character rhythmic poems.

The forms and styles of Tang poetry are colorful and innovative. It not only inherited the tradition of Han and Wei folk songs and Yuefu, but also greatly developed the singing style. It not only inherited the five-character or seven-character ancient poems of the previous generation, but also developed into a long and huge system of narrative romance; It not only expanded the use of five-character and seven-character styles, but also created modern poems with particularly beautiful and neat styles.