Characteristics of Tang Poetry The Tang Dynasty (AD 6 18-907) was the heyday of the development of classical poetry in China. Tang poetry is one of China's outstanding literary heritages and a bright pearl in the treasure house of world literature. Although it has been more than 1000 years, many poems are still widely circulated by us. There were many poets in the Tang Dynasty. Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi are of course world-famous great poets, except them. There are countless other poets, like the stars in the sky. There are more than 2300 famous poets today. There are more than 48,900 poems preserved in the whole Tang poetry. Tang poetry has a wide range of subjects. Some of them reflected the class status and class contradictions of the society at that time and exposed the darkness of feudal society. Some praise the just war and express patriotic thoughts; Some depict the beauty of the motherland's rivers and mountains; In addition, there are those who express personal ambitions and experiences, children's feelings, friends' friendship, joys and sorrows of life and so on. In short, natural phenomena, political dynamics, working life, social customs and personal feelings can not escape the poet's keen eyes, which makes their writing a theme. In terms of creative methods, there are both realism and romanticism, and many great works are of these two kinds. It has formed an excellent tradition of China's classical poetry. There are many forms of Tang poetry. There are basically two kinds of ancient poems in the Tang Dynasty, five-character poems and seven-character poems. There are also two kinds of modern poems, one is called quatrains, and the other is called metrical poems. Quatrains and metrical poems are different. Therefore, there are basically six basic forms of Tang poetry: five-character ancient poems, seven-character ancient poems, five-character quatrains and seven-character poems. Seven-character verse Classical poetry requires a wide range of rhythms: in a poem, the number of sentences can be more or less, the chapters can be longer or shorter, and the rhyme can be changed. Modern poetry has strict requirements for rhyme: the number of sentences in a poem is limited, that is, four quatrains and eight rhymes, and the words used in each poem have certain rules, but the rhyme cannot be changed; Rhyme also requires four sentences in the middle. The style of ancient poetry is handed down from the previous generation, so it is also called ancient style. Modern poetry has strict rules, so some people call it metrical poetry. The forms and styles of Tang poetry are rich and colorful, bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new. It not only inherited the tradition of Han and Wei folk songs and Yuefu, but also greatly developed the singing style. It not only inherited the five-character ancient poems and seven-character ancient poems of the previous generation, but also developed into a long narrative romance; It not only expanded the use of five-character and seven-character styles, but also created modern poems with particularly beautiful and neat styles. Modern poetry was a new style of poetry at that time, and its emergence and maturity was an important event in the history of Tang poetry development. It pushed the artistic features of China's ancient poems with harmonious syllables and refined words to an unprecedented height, and found a typical form for ancient lyric poetry, which has been especially loved by people so far. However, the rhythm in modern poetry, because of its strict metrical restrictions, is easy to make the content of poetry bound and unable to create and play freely, which is a major defect brought by its advantages. Li Bai (70 1-762), a poet in the Tang Dynasty, was born in Longxi (now Qin 'an, Gansu) and moved to the Western Regions at the end of Sui Dynasty.