Why are there the most poems in the Tang Dynasty?

The development of China's classical poetry reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty. There are nearly 50,000 Poems of the Whole Tang Dynasty alone, and there are more than 2,200 authors with names to test. Great poets such as Li Bai and Du Fu and a large number of famous artists with world reputation have emerged. A variety of styles and schools are blooming, whether it is the theme content or artistic expression, coupled with the completeness and stereotypes of various poetry systems, it shows that the creation of poetry is completely mature and unprecedented. There are many reasons why Tang poetry can achieve such high achievements. The development and changes of feudal economy and politics have prompted great changes in the whole social life, thus opening up new sources and providing new materials for poetry creation. Tang poetry broke through the small circle in which most of the poems in the late Six Dynasties were confined to mysterious words, landscapes and palace styles, or described people's frustration and depression, and widely reflected social class contradictions and people's livelihood sufferings, government affairs and local turmoil, frontier wars and national customs, urban life and rural scenery, as well as ethics, family, love, marriage, businessmen and craftsmen. The breadth and depth of its generalization is unprecedented. The changes of feudal economy and politics pushed the poor families of ordinary people onto the historical stage. They became the most active force in political life and the main creative group of Tang poetry. Generally speaking, Buyi literati have a broad vision, and some of them have close contact and contact with working people because of their low social status and poor life, which is reflected in their poetry creation. The prosperity of Tang poetry is also closely related to the liberation of social thought in Tang dynasty. The rulers of the Tang Dynasty have certain confidence in their own rule, and at the same time they need to coordinate internal contradictions in order to facilitate long-term stability. Therefore, they adopted a relatively open and free policy in terms of ideological convenience, accommodating Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and sometimes allowing and encouraging people to criticize current politics. This has played a positive role in lifting the ideological shackles of contemporary people and promoting the free play of poetry creation. The prosperity of Tang poetry is also the product of the general prosperity of culture and art in Tang Dynasty. At that time, the relative popularization of culture and the expansion of the mass base of poetry brought new vitality to poetry creation. The full development of various literary and artistic forms in the Tang Dynasty also influenced poetry in many ways. The ancient prose movement, legendary novels, Buddhist stories and essays contributed to the special tendency of poetry after the middle Tang Dynasty, such as prose, storytelling and mystery. The rise of Qu Zi's Ci opened up a new realm for the late Tang Dynasty prose and Li's poetry, and the implementation of the poetry selection system will naturally have an impact on poetry. The great achievements of Tang literature are the result of the poet's criticism, inheritance and innovation of literary heritage in many aspects. The development of China's classical poetry has a history of more than 1,600 years from The Book of Songs to the Tang Dynasty. Tang poetry fully absorbs the rich creative experience of predecessors and embodies the style of Tang poetry. Of course, the poets in the Tang Dynasty did not blindly treat the literary heritage, but sublated it. In the early Tang Dynasty, several generations of poets struggled for a long time against the tendency of attaching importance to form and neglecting content in the poems of the Six Dynasties, especially the bad influence on the poems of Qi Liang and Chen Gong, and finally basically broke away from the old shackles and opened up a new situation. However, when denying and reforming the old ethos, we do not exclude useful writing skills; This is also an important reason why Tang poetry can stride beyond tradition. The formation of Tang poetry prosperity by stages has also experienced a tortuous process. Usually, the evolution of Tang poetry can be divided into four stages: early Tang, prosperous Tang, middle Tang and late Tang. The early Tang Dynasty refers to the extension from the first year of Gaozu Wude to the first year of Ruiqu (Ruiqusheng). This is the primary stage of Tang poetry. Poets in the Tang Dynasty initially inherited the poetic style of Qi and Liang, and later changed the old poetic style and embarked on their own new path. During this period, the four great poets in the early Tang Dynasty and later poets played an important role in the transformation of poetic style, while Shen Quanqi, Song, Du and others completed the construction of legal style and prepared for the emergence of the climax of the prosperous Tang Dynasty from different aspects. (6 18 ~ 7 12) The prosperous Tang Dynasty refers to the first year of Xuanzong Kaiyuan to the first year of Daizong Yongtai. This is the stage of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, but it is also the peak of the prosperity of Tang poetry. There are many famous poets in the world, and their masterpieces are like forests. Great poets Li Bai and Du Fu, frontier poets represented by Gao Shi and Cen Can, and pastoral poets represented by Wang Wei and Meng Haoran all came into being in this period. (7 13 ~ 765) The Middle Tang Dynasty refers to the period from the first year of Zongdali to the fourth year of Mu Zong Changqing. In these 60 years, after the chaos of the first 30 years, the Tang Dynasty was in a depression period, and the poetry world was also very depressed. There are a group of poets who are called "Ten Talented Talents in Dali". They pay attention to the modification of words, but they are poor in describing what content is. Later, with the political reform of the imperial court and the efforts of military counterinsurgency, the active atmosphere of poetry creation reappeared. At this stage, Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen, Zhang Ji and Jincon, who consciously carried forward Du Fu's realistic spirit, and Han Yu, Meng Jiao, Jia Dao and Li He, who devoted themselves to developing Du Fu's innovative skills, created different styles. * * Together with Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi, they are isomorphic into Yuanhe poetry circles with diverse styles, forming another peak in the development history of Tang poetry. (766 ~ 824) Late Tang Dynasty refers to the period from the first year of Zongbaoli to the end of Tang Dynasty. The deepening of social crisis and class contradictions eventually led to the collapse of the Tang Dynasty. Reflected in the field of poetry, it is the aggravation of sadness and decadence, and the prevalence of engraving and breaking sentences. Even excellent poets such as Du Mu and Li Shangyin inevitably got into this habit. It shows the declining trend of Tang poetry. However, the poet's fine tradition of resenting current events and caring about people's livelihood has not disappeared. Until the late Tang Dynasty, in the poems of Pi Rixiu and others, the echoes of the poetry circles in the prosperous Tang Dynasty were heard from time to time. (825~907)