Why is the Tang Dynasty the golden age of China's poetry?

This can be summarized as follows: first, the number is amazing; Second, there are many poets; Third, freedom of creation; Fourth, colorful style; Fifth, reach the peak. During the reign of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, the Complete Poems of Tang Poetry compiled by Patten and others included more than 48,900 poems. Today, the Complete Poems of Tang Poetry compiled by Wang Zhongmin and others included nearly 2,000 works. The total number exceeds 50 thousand. According to the statistics of Complete Tang Poetry alone, there are more than 2,300 poets handed down from the Tang Dynasty. From emperors and officials to literati, businessmen, medical wizards, women, monks and beggars, you can write poems. Emperors like Li Shimin and Wu Zetian all like to write poems. Famous artists gathered in various periods, and the stars were bright. Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi are three peaks with unique styles. There are no fewer than fifty or sixty famous poets, which greatly exceeds the sum of the famous poets from the Warring States to the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, poems were freely created and expressed from senior officials to ordinary people. Poems in the Tang Dynasty are colorful and romantic, including pastoral poems, frontier poems, popular poems, bitter poems, love poems, war poems and so on. Lu Xun said: All good poems were written in the Tang Dynasty. Tang poetry is indeed an unattainable peak in the history of classical poetry in China. As far as subject matter and content are concerned, it reflects the broad social outlook of the Tang Dynasty. Reflect the unprecedented magnificent weather. From an artistic point of view, it is even more beautiful. Since then, all genres and skill styles can be found in Tang poetry.

In the history of China literature, the Li-Tang Dynasty, with a history of only a few hundred years, is like an insurmountable mountain, which makes people look up. Tens of thousands of poems produced in Li Tang period entered the history of China literature and world literature, which influenced the development of ancient and modern literature.

Li Yuan, the founder of the Li and Tang Dynasties, was taken away from the throne by his son Li Shimin shortly after his reign. Therefore, according to relevant historical records, Li Yuan's influence on the development of Tang Dynasty and Tang Poetry should be limited. Li Shimin is brilliant, but I am bookish and interested in calligraphy and poetry, so these two kinds of art are like two springs dug by Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty, flowing in the whole development process of the Tang Dynasty. Calligraphy has created Yan style, Liu style, European style and Yu style. There have been tens of thousands of poems and a large number of famous artists.

This situation is due to the advocacy of those in power. In the history of China, once those in power have a hobby, they will use their power to infiltrate this hobby into all levels of social life. If the authorities believe in Buddhism, the cause of Buddhism will advance by leaps and bounds, and if the authorities love sports, sports venues will be everywhere. The Li and Tang dynasties were no exception. Li Shimin likes poetry, so it is natural for him to choose scholars as poets. When the examiner He saw a visitor named Bai Juyi, he couldn't help sighing: It's not easy to live in Chang 'an. However, when he read a poem by Bai Juyi, there were two lines in it: "wildfire never quite consumes them, the spring breeze is blowing high." He couldn't help but be overjoyed and cried, "Yi, Yi, Yi!" Later, Bai Juyi became an official by virtue of his talent, made a secretariat of Suzhou, and also repaired the Su Causeway in Suzhou. Su Causeway went down in history through Bai Juyi's achievements in poetry, and today it is a scenic spot in Suzhou. Li Bai, on the other hand, was deeply loved by Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty because of his good poems, so that once when Li Bai wrote a poem, he relied on alcohol to ask the emperor's confidant Gao Lishi to take off his boots and ask the emperor's beloved Yang Guifei to grind ink. Tang Xuanzong did not blame him and agreed. But Li Bai finally got tired of this kind of life and wrote: Ah, how can I bow and scrape to those high-ranking officials whose sincere faces will never be seen? I really don't know how small I am! Li Bai today doesn't know what kind of situation it is! And King Robin, because of his talent, was hard to be known for some time. When he was a staff member for Li, he was very dissatisfied with a female emperor like Wu Zetian. When Li stood up against Wu Zetian, he was not afraid that the rebellion would be beheaded. He gladly drafted "For Wu Haowen" for Li. The poet's talent was fully displayed in this battle, and his pen was sharp, pointing directly at the pain of Wu Zetian, so that Wu Zetian saw this battle. This kind of story can only happen in the Tang Dynasty. This is a romantic era of respecting poets. No matter how arrogant you are, as long as your talent is gorgeous enough, you can show it to your heart's content.

Poetry developed in the Tang Dynasty and benefited from the prosperity of song and dance art at that time. At that time, poetry was widely known by artists. At that time, the communication tools were quite backward, and the singer of poetry was a carrier of communication. At that time, the singers of the Tang Dynasty were all over Chang 'an and the territory of the Tang Dynasty. However, due to the particularity of singing, poems are required to be catchy, close to life, short and pithy, and not too long, so most of the Tang poems we see today meet this requirement, and only a few are too long.

The rapid development of Tang poetry also benefited from the tolerance of Tang society, so the subject matter of poetry is quite extensive, and even the life of the emperor can be included in poetry. Bai Juyi wrote Song of Eternal Sorrow based on the love life of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei. Therefore, the poets in this tolerant society have different styles, including Li Bai's boldness, Du Fu's sadness, Chen Ziang's loneliness and resentment, Bai Juyi's sigh that "neither of us is happy until the end of the day", Wang Changling's cold-eyed view of the world, Li Shangyin's emphasis on personal feelings, Wang Wei's love for rural landscapes and Du Mu's historical experience of the rise and fall of the late Tang Dynasty and the previous dynasties. These poets, with their own pens, worked hard to create, and finally replaced the demise of the dynasty with a poetic feast in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty lived in people's memory with the help of poetry.