The characteristics of Tang poetry are summarized in four words.

The representative writers in this period are "four outstanding writers in the early Tang Dynasty"-Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, Lu, Luo; In addition, there is Chen Ziang.

They advocate writing poems in a fresh and natural way, instead of flowery rhetoric.

In the prosperous Tang dynasty

There are "frontier poets" and "pastoral poets". Pastoral landscape poems are quiet and leisurely, while frontier war poems depict desolation and grandeur.

Zhongtang

The most outstanding achievement is Bai Juyi, who put forward the progressive theory that "articles should be written in time, songs and poems should be written for things" and personally participated in and led the "New Yuefu Movement". Bai Juyi's poems are clear and easy to understand.

late tang dynasty

Famous poets in the late Tang Dynasty were Wen, Li Shangyin and Du Mu.

Beautiful and soft, obscure.