Representative poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty

Representative poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty: Wang Wei, Meng Haoran, Gao Shi, Cen Can, Li Bai, Du Fu and Wang Changling. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Li Bai and Du Fu were the most famous, followed by Wang Wei and Meng Haoran, as well as Gao Shi and Cen Can. Du Fu won his fame at the latest, and all his poems were written during the Anshi Rebellion at the end of Tianbao. Li Bai was called into the palace during the Tianbao period and became famous in one fell swoop. In the early years of Kaiyuan, the most famous poet was Wang Wei.

1, Wang Wei

Wang Wei is from Mozi and Taiyuan. Familiar with Buddhist classics. In Buddhism, there is a Vimalakīrti Sutra written by Vimalakīrti, a wise Buddhist, and his disciples. Wang Wei admired it, so he took it apart and named himself Wei, with the word "Momo". He is good at poetry, calligraphy and painting, but also deeper than music. He is good at playing the piano and pipa. His poems and paintings are light and long. Su Dongpo once said: "Look at poetry, there are paintings in poetry, and look at paintings, and there are poems in paintings."

2. Meng Haoran

People often call Wang Meng both because their poetic style is mainly light and leisurely. Meng Haoran is older than Wang Wei 10, but his career is not as prosperous as Wang Wei's. Wang Wei survived the Anshi Rebellion and continued to be an official, while Meng Haoran did not become a scholar and had no official position. Meng Haoran, a native of Xiangyang, died in the 28th year of Kaiyuan. Later generations said that "Meng, literature is not an official, behavior is not for decoration, and travel is not for profit" is indeed a bit too beautified. For example, in his masterpiece "A Gift to Prime Minister Zhang of Dongting Lake", "It's better to be a gentleman without a boat" is a manifestation of wanting to be an official. Most of his thoughts are the declining mood of struggling for official position and despair.

3. Wang Changling

Shao Bo is from Jingzhao (Xi). In the fifteenth year of Kaiyuan, he was both a scholar and a scholar (the same year as Chang Jian, but Chang Jian's career was not as good as Wang Changling's). The last official position was Long Biaobiao, and later generations called him Wang Longbiao. Chang Jian, Wang Changling, Chu Guangxi, Meng Haoran and Wang Zhihuan were all famous poets in Kaiyuan and Tianbao years, and they were all down and out.

4. Li Bai

In Li Bai's poems, five words are more than seven, and ancient poems and verses are more than metrical poems. He has recited poems for thousands of years, most of which are songs, which is also related to his artistic techniques. He is good at Yuefu songs, ancient customs, quatrains, and five or seven-character poems in turn. Among them, the seven-character metrical poems are few and weak, the most prominent of which is "On the Phoenix Terrace in Nanjing". Li Bai is a romantic poet. He expresses his heroic, melancholy and resentful feelings with all kinds of thinking in images, and takes wandering immortals and drinking as his coat.