The Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty was compiled by Patten, Shen Sanzeng, Yang Zhongne, Wang Yi, Yu Mei, Xu Shuben, Che, Pan, Chasban, etc. 10 in the forty-four years of Qing Emperor Kangxi. "More than forty-eight thousand nine hundred poems, a total of two thousand two hundred.
In the forty-second year of Kangxi (1703), Kangxi considered compiling this book. In March of the forty-fourth year of Kangxi (1705), when he came to Suzhou for the fifth time, he entrusted Jiangning to be responsible for the compilation of the book, and issued a chronological Tang poem as the back cover of the school magazine in Neifu. In May of the same year, under the auspices of Cao Yin, he began to write books in Yangzhou. By the second year 10, the whole book was compiled and typed. Based on Hu Zhenheng's "Tang Yin Tong Qian" in Ming Dynasty and "Tang Poetry" in Qing Dynasty, the book uses the remains of inscriptions, broken inscriptions and miscellaneous books to fill in the gaps, leaving a lot of details and complete structure.
This voluminous book can be compiled in just over a year, mainly by making full use of the achievements of Ji's Tang poems and Hu Zhenheng's Tang Yin Tong Qian. "All Tang Poems" combines the poems and songs of the Tang Dynasty into one, which provides great convenience for researchers. However, there are many problems due to the hasty completion of the book.
In the book, the works of the emperor and queen are the first, followed by music and Yuefu, and the poets in the Tang Dynasty have biographies of the authors. Followed by couplets, escape sentences, celebrities, monks, Taoist priests, immortals, gods, ghosts, monsters, dreams, jokes, sentences, songs, predictions and so on.