Tang poetry generally refers to the poetry written by poets in the Tang Dynasty. Tang poetry is one of the precious cultural heritages of the Chinese nation and a pearl in the treasure house of Chinese culture. According to statistics, there are approximately 49,403 Tang poems. "Three Hundred Tang Poems" is a widely circulated anthology of Tang poetry. It contains a wide variety of poems, including 77 poems and 311 poems.
Why did Sun Zhu and Xu Yulan’s Hengtang Tuishi start like this? Over the years, hundreds of anthologies of Tang poetry have been compiled. It is generally believed that Sun Zhude, who retired from Hengtang, "began" because he was dissatisfied with the popular children's homeschooling textbook "Qian Shi" at that time. "Good system".
The deeper reason is the reform of the imperial examination system during the Qianlong period. In the imperial examination in the early Ming Dynasty, the most important content was the eight-legged essay. After Emperor Qianlong came to the throne, he found that these eight essays were all in vain, and there was a problem of "ink copying". After some discussion, in the spring of the 22nd year of Qianlong (1757), he finally ordered that this prose be changed into five essays similar in form to provincial poems in the Tang Dynasty, called "test poems". The difference is that the markers in the Tang Dynasty could write questions based on their own ideas, while the markers in the Qing Dynasty had to write questions based on the condensed contents of the Classics, History, Zihe, which objectively improved the literary and historical knowledge of the literati.
In order to meet the needs of scientific examinations, various anthologies of Tang poetry have appeared, the best of which is Shen Deqian's anthology of Tang poetry. However, this book selects nearly two thousand poems. As an introductory book to study Tang poetry, it is too heavy. Sun was born a scholar and served as an imperial examiner and county magistrate. At that time, he was a professor in Jiangning Prefecture. He understood the importance of samadhi and poetic patterns. Therefore, book selection has the significance of cultivating sentiment and popularizing culture. As soon as "Three Hundred Tang Poems" came out, there was a situation where "it was so popular that several people came to set one up".
"Three Hundred Tang Poems" contains ***77 poems and ***311 poems, including 38 poems by Du Fu, 29 poems by Wang Wei, 27 poems by Li Bai, and 22 poems by Li Shangyin. Why did you choose this poem among more than 40,000 Tang poems? The first volume 8 at the beginning excerpts Zheng Tian’s Four Lines from Ma Weipo, and Sun Zhu, a retired poem from Hengtang Dynasty, said in the next batch: "There are many poems about the gatekeepers in the Tang Dynasty, but the first one is Rourou, so Record." It can be seen that "gentle and serious" poetry teaching is his purpose in choosing poetry.