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The early Tang Dynasty was the pioneering period of Tang poetry. In the early Tang Dynasty, the floating poetry style of Qi Liang was inherited, and palace poetry was popular. Wang Ji is a poet who can get rid of the floating poetic style of palace poems. He admired Tao Yuanming's life attitude and poetic style, mainly describing rural scenery and personal rural life, and his poetic style was sparse.
"Four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty" refers to four poets: Yang Jiong, Lu and Luo. Their main contribution is to destroy and transform palace poems, formulate five laws and develop seven-character songs. After the "Four Masters", Shen Quan and Song are two poets who shape metrical poems.
Chen Ziang was the first writer who raised the banner of poetry innovation in the Tang Dynasty. He praised the ancient poems of Han and Wei dynasties and advocated "the style of Han and Wei dynasties" and "elegance". He took retro as innovation, swept away the floating poetic style of palace poetry, corrected the development direction of Tang poetry, and paved the way for the peak of Tang poetry.
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Poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty represents the highest achievement of Tang poetry. The two schools of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty are the pastoral poetry school represented by Wang Wei and Meng Haoran and the frontier poetry school represented by Gao Shi and Cen Can. Wang Changling, William Wang, Wang Zhihuan, Li Qi, Cui Hao and other important poets of the Frontier Poetry School. Li Bai and Du Fu were two great poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and their poems represented the highest achievements of Tang poetry and even China's classical poetry. Zhang, He, Zhang Xu and Bao Rong are called "Wuzhong Four Scholars".
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Poetry creation was at a low point in the early middle Tang Dynasty, and reappeared in the later period. Ten poets who enjoyed great fame in Tang Daizong during the Dali period were collectively called "Ten Talents in Dali Period". Yuan Jie and Gu Kuang in the early middle Tang Dynasty paid attention to reflecting people's livelihood, and they were transitional poets between the new Yuefu advocated by Du Fu and the new Yuefu movement headed by Bai Juyi. In the early middle Tang Dynasty, Liu Changqing and Wei were famous for their landscape poems, and they were another great master after Wang Wei and Meng Haoran. The frontier poems of Lu Lun and Li Yi are the latecomers of Gao Shi and Cen Can. The two major schools of poetry in the middle and late Tang Dynasty were the New Yuefu School and the Han Meng School.
In the middle Tang Dynasty, a group of poets, represented by Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, consciously carried forward Du Fu's realistic spirit, searched for poetry materials from the source of life, created a large number of Yuefu poems with new themes, used new languages and marked new poems, which set off the New Yuefu Movement. The backbone poets of the New Yuefu Movement are Zhang Ji, Wang Jian and Li Shen.
Han Meng Poetry School and New Yuefu Poetry School appeared almost at the same time, represented by Han Yu and Meng Jiao respectively. They flaunt "Chen Yan Wu Qu", admire Gu Zhuo, seek adventure, avoid familiarity in art, and deliberately seek novelty because of difficulties, forming a peculiar style. In addition to the two major schools of poetry, outstanding poets include Liu Yuxi, Liu Zongyuan and Li He.
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The late Tang Dynasty is the period when the setting sun of Tang poetry shines again. The overall situation of the poetry world is a strong sentimental atmosphere and a prevailing carving atmosphere. Li Shangyin and Du Mu are very famous poets in the early late Tang Dynasty, and they are called "Little Du Li". They are also the most accomplished poets in the late Tang Dynasty. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, a group of poets, represented by Pi Rixiu, Nie and Du Xunhe, carried forward the creative spirit of the New Yuefu School in the middle Tang Dynasty and paid attention to reflecting people's livelihood, but their artistic achievements were not high.