Poetry in the early Tang Dynasty: This is the preparation period for the prosperity of Tang poetry. Important poets are Yang Jiong, Lu, Luo, Shen Quanqi and Song. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the poetry of the Tang Dynasty still developed along the inertia of the poetry of the Southern Dynasties, which was soft, delicate and lifeless. The emergence of the "four masters" began to change this trend. They are brilliant and dissatisfied with the present situation, and express their grief and heroism through their own poems, thus broadening the theme of their poems.
Poetry in the Prosperous Tang Dynasty: By the beginning of the 8th century, the Tang Dynasty had the so-called "Kaiyuan Shengshi", and its economy and culture reached its peak. There are also a large number of outstanding poets in the field of poetry creation, who have written extremely rich poems. Among them, pastoral landscape poems and poems describing frontier wars accounted for a considerable proportion, and Li Bai and Du Fu also appeared at this time.
Poetry in the middle and late Tang Dynasty: In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the heyday of the dynasty has passed, but poetry creation has not failed. Outstanding poets with different styles have emerged, such as Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Zhang Ji, Li He, Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen, Liu Yuxi, Du Mu, Li Shangyin, Wen and Du Xunhe. Their poems reflect the crisis and folk sufferings in the decline of the Tang Dynasty empire from different angles, and their artistic achievements are very high, which have a great influence on future generations.