Tang and Song Dynasties were great men. What do you mean by poetry of every generation?

This sentence comes from On Qian Zhongshu's Poems in Tang and Song Dynasties. In the history of China's ancient poetry, "the tune of Tang and Song Dynasties" has always been a topic of great concern, and literary critics have been arguing about the merits of Tang and Song Dynasties one after another. Since Yan Yu's "Poetry Review" said that "the poems of Tang people are not clumsy, but the weather is different", "it has become a common practice to divide Tang into Song", which opened the first voice of the dispute between Tang and Song. At the end of Ming Dynasty, Yang Shen, Miao Yue, Lu and Cheng of Qian Zhongshu all discussed this issue. ......

Qian Zhongshu believes that "Tang poetry" and "Song poetry" are concepts divided according to the style of poetry, so they are meaningless. As the saying goes: "Both Tang and Song were great poets, and each became a generation of poets". ?

Meaning: In the garden of China's poems, the ancient poems with five or seven words are the most popular and energetic style. The works in Tang and Song Dynasties have different appearances and high achievements, just like "two harmonious peaks". But in the evaluation, people who read poetry always have their own preferences. Wang Guowei said that "literature is passed down from generation to generation" is very reasonable, but he still thinks that the poems of the Tang Dynasty "cannot be inherited by future generations" and that the Song Dynasty is not as good as the Tang Dynasty. For reference.