How to "publish" poems by poets in Tang Dynasty

After the poets in the Tang Dynasty finished writing poems, there are roughly the following ways to "publish":

This is the most common way to give gifts, such as Li Bai's poems & gt<& lt Dune City to send Du Fu >> Some poems are given to others, although there is no title of "send" or "give". Sometimes poets recite their new works directly to their friends. Su Xun, a friend of Du Fu's poems, visited Du Fu's boat and recited Du Fu's poems face to face.

In order to gain fame and success, many literati in the Tang Dynasty often dedicated their proud works to celebrities at that time, so as to spread them widely and improve their social status. For example, Zhu Qingyu's poem << About boudoir, Zhang Say No >> is dedicated to the famous poet Zhang Ji at that time.

Impromptu chanting, such as Lu Lun, Han Hu, Li Duan and other so-called "ten gifted scholars" over the years, often went to banquets of princes and nobles to recite responses, which made them famous.

The walls and columns of public places such as post stations, post houses and temples have become the established poetry "publishing gardens" of poets in the Tang Dynasty. & lt Blue Bridge Post See Nine Yuan Songs >> There is an old saying in China, "Every post station must dismount and follow the walls and pillars to find your poems." Poets in the Tang Dynasty also like to "publish" poems in places of interest. According to records, there are hundreds of poems inscribed by Ganyue Pavilion in Raozhou. Zhang Hu, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, wrote poems in dozens of famous temples all over the country.

In addition, after the middle Tang Dynasty, it was popular to write poems with "poetry tablets" and then hang them up. During the period of Xian Tong in the late Tang Dynasty, the poet Xue Neng flew over the Spring Pavilion via Shu and saw "more than 100 poems and plaques in the pavilion", which shows that the use of poems and plaques is very common. Most of the poets who set up poetry tablets are local county magistrates and temple owners. They asked the famous poets passing by to leave poems in order to add luster to the local and local temple scenery, such as sister counties.

More interestingly, Tang Qiu, a Taoist poet, put many of his poems into a big spoon and a river so that more people could read his poems. Block printing was invented in the Tang Dynasty, and poets also printed poems, such as Bai Juyi, but it was difficult to spread them widely.