The emergence of the "four masters" began to change this trend. They are brilliant, dissatisfied with the status quo, expressing indignation and heroic embrace through their own poems, and broadening the theme of poetry.
This inspirational and heroic style has brought a new wind to the poetry circle in the early Tang Dynasty. This poem expresses the young people's desire to join the army and make contributions to the frontier. I'd rather be a junior officer (centurion) than a scholar who has nothing to do with me.
Following the "Four Masters", Chen Ziang criticized the weak poetic style since the Southern Dynasties in theory, arguing that this kind of poetry is specialized in playing with flowery rhetoric and empty in content, and abandoned the tradition of attaching importance to ideological content in The Book of Songs. He was deeply worried about this and advocated learning from the poetic style of Han and Wei dynasties to restore the poetic style of Jian 'an era.
His 38 poems "Feeling" put his thoughts into practice and had great influence. The contributions of Shen Quanqi and Song are mainly in the aspect of poetic rhythm. They summed up the achievements of the poets in exploring poetic meter since the "Yongming Style" and promoted the stereotype of "Modern Poetry" with their own poems.
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In the early Tang Dynasty, it was famous for Yang Jiong, Lu, Luo and so on. During the autocratic period of Wu Zetian, the poems of Song and Shen Quanqi made great achievements, and finally formed quatrains and metrical poems. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, poetry flourished, and pastoral poems and frontier poems rose. Wang Wei and Meng Haoran are the most prominent pastoral poems, while Cen Can and Gao Shi are the best frontier poems.
Li Bai and Du Fu were the best poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Li Bai's Farewell to Meng Haoran on the Way to Yangzhou and Du Fu's A Car Shop added many clouds to the sky in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Poetry in the Middle Tang Dynasty was written by ten talented people in Dali, and Bai Juyi was another peak of China's poetry. His masterpieces include Song of Eternal Sorrow and Pipa. In the late Tang Dynasty, Du Mu and Li Shangyin made great achievements in poetry, worrying about the country and hurting the time.
In the mid-Tang Dynasty, Ci had been finalized. There were many poets in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and Wen created a large number of words.
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