The poetry of the early Tang Dynasty is a transition from the lingering wind of Qi Liang to the atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. It has prepared for the arrival of the peak of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty in terms of style, rhythm, artistic conception and many other aspects.
The literature of an era must be contaminated with the flavor of that era, and the new atmosphere of the unified Tang Dynasty must be reflected in the poetry of the Tang Dynasty. So in the last fifty years of the early Tang Dynasty, the style of poetry changed. It is reflected in several aspects such as poetic style, subject matter, genre, etc. From the perspective of poetic style, poetry has gradually got rid of the colorful and lascivious habits of Qi and Liang Dynasties, showing a fresh and vigorous style; from the perspective of content, poetry has broken through the narrow poetry of the Six Dynasties. The subject matter field began to express the broad social life and major political issues; from the perspective of genre, the form of rhymed poetry was basically established, and the seven-character song line also received great development.
The Four Heroes of the Early Tang Dynasty are Gao Gao of the Tang Dynasty. From Zong to the period of Empress Wu, there were four poets with small positions but high talents, Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, and Luo Binwang. It should be said that Tang poetry with both voice and style began with them. The Tang Dynasty had a vigorous atmosphere of the times and an outstanding reputation for talent. The four heroes were full of ambitions and ambitions to help the world, but their humble official positions and status made them unable to develop their talents and frustrated. The four heroes' feelings about the official style, represented by the official style, were expressed as themes in their poems With the development of the country, the four heroes moved their poetry from the palace to the market, from the pavilions to the mountains and deserts. The development of themes also brought a serious thought, a bold momentum, and a generous and sad style. Four Jie's poetry has therefore become a masterpiece of concise poetry in the early Tang Dynasty. Chen Ziang's creative achievements: The thirty-eight poems of "Poems of Feelings" are Chen Ziang's representative works. The second "King of Yanzhao" is an even more popular masterpiece. These two poems are also important works of poetry in the early Tang Dynasty.
The early Tang Dynasty was also an important period for the development of poetry genres, and the "Yongming style" is here. It developed into rhythmic poetry, and those who made the greatest contributions to rhythmic poetry were Shen Quanqi and Song Zhiwen. The so-called "Yongming style" was a new poetry style that began to appear in the Qi Yongming Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties. The famous poet Shen Yue at that time combined the four tones of Chinese characters into By studying the coordination of tones, rhymes, and tones in poems with double-tone overlapping rhymes, eight kinds of phonological problems that should be avoided are pointed out, which are called "eight diseases." This kind of rhythmic rules and duality cooperate with each other to form a metrical rhythm. A new poetry style. Because this new poetry style was created during the Yongming Dynasty, it was called Yongming Style.
Yongming Style laid the foundation for the establishment of rhymed poetry. The important court poets Shen Quanqi and Song Zhiwen in the Empress Wu period On the basis of Yongming style, the four tones are dualized, that is, the four tones are summarized into two types: level and level. It also solves the problem of sticky rhythm and completes the transition from verses to verses. Thus creating a kind of A new style of poetry that has both formal constraints and broad creative space is called rhythmic poetry. In the process of finalizing the rhythmic poetry, the Shen Song Dynasty made the greatest contribution. It was they who finally completed the task of "reflecting the sound disease and concentrating on the correct verses" of the rhythmic poetry. , so the rhythmic poetry was originally called the "Shen Song style". The shaping of the rhythmic poetry is of great significance to the development of poetry, and it promotes Tang poetry to its climax.
The poets of the early Tang Dynasty also played an important role in the development of artistic conception. They began to break away from the Six Dynasties The flashy and gorgeous style is devoted to the natural poetic artistic conception. Zhang Ruoxu's "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night" is the leader. It uses old music of Yuefu Wu Sheng to write the old theme of a wanderer missing his wife, but it has been praised as "a single chapter that overwhelms the whole poem". "Tang Dynasty", the reason lies in the development of new artistic conception.