Strong national strength, economic prosperity, ideological tolerance, cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, and political rivers are all rivers, which have prepared rich soil for the development of literature in the Tang Dynasty. More than one hundred years' pioneering and development has also brought high spirits to literature and created an atmosphere of prosperous Tang Dynasty, which has been repeatedly praised by later generations.
At the same time, it also experienced an unprecedented war disaster, and launched a life of killing, destruction, displacement and disaster in front of literati. Such a rich life is not available in every dynasty. It provides an extremely rich theme for writers and broadens the horizons of poets.
Judging from the development of literature itself, the prosperity of Tang literature is the inevitable result of the development of literature in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, parallel prose pushed the form of prose beauty to the extreme, but it also exposed its weaknesses. The rhythmic form of poetry has been formed, and new styles are constantly emerging. All these indicate that the literature of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties made some preparations for the development of China literature to a new stage. It is on this basis that Tang poetry can be vividly portrayed, and the Tang people created poetry as a literary expression. Tang poetry is the embodiment of good weather, favorable geographical position and harmonious people. It is a brilliant treasure and an insurmountable monument in the history of China literature.
Early Tang Dynasty (6 18-7 12)
In 6 18, Li Yuan proclaimed himself emperor, announcing the arrival of a new era.
The rise of a dynasty means bidding farewell to all previous dynasties, but history can bid farewell, but culture is still inextricably linked. Poetry in the early Tang Dynasty is still deeply influenced by the past poetic style.
In the early Tang Dynasty, five-character poems occupied the main position. The well-known official style, influenced by the social atmosphere at that time, was mainly composed of chanting harmony, feasting and chanting poems about things, with gorgeous rhetoric, wonderful flattery, singing praises and whitewashing peace. Pay attention to the formal skills of poetry, pursue the beauty of sound and words, and the content is very poor.
▲ Wang Bo
Although the four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty, led by Wang Bo, created a large number of poems, which expanded the scope of poetry expression, some works were inevitably mixed with the charming and fragrant Qi-Liang style of the Southern Dynasties, which was called cool breeze in history. However, at this time, the poetry has formed a relatively obvious law, the metrical poetry is gradually improved, the five-seven-character metrical poetry is gradually finalized, the modern poetry is more mature, and quatrains and metrical poetry are galloping on their own roads.
In the era of Tang Gaozong, with the prosperity and development of economy, the poet was full of fantasy and passion for fame and fortune, suffocating with a heroic spirit unwilling to be isolated from the world. Their poems are full of profound and generous broad feelings, and they are the people who opened the curtain of Tang poetry. Chen Ziang was the first poet in the early Tang Dynasty to stand out against the poetic style of Qi and Liang Dynasties, and Chen Ziang advocated the poetic style of Han and Wei Dynasties, and used retro as an innovative means to resist the impetuous atmosphere.
"Before me, where was the past era? Behind me, where are the future generations? . I think of heaven and earth, there is no limit, there is no end, I am alone, and my tears fall. "
On the Tower of Youzhou, the soul helped the whole world, but there was no hero.