Tang And Chivalry In Tang Dynasty Poetry Study

There was few quantity of the poems about knight, but it wasan important component of classical poems of our country.Since the 20th century, a lot of scholars have studied on the poems of Tang Dynasty , chivalrous culture and knight novels, but in the past 85 years, but the academe have done little research on the chivalrous poems before the Tang Dynasty and the Tang dynasty.After the middle period of the eighties, the scholars began to pay close attention to the poems about knight, and has carried on research on it, mainly concentrated on the poems' origination, content and artistic characteristic, Cao Zhi and Li Bai's poems are the emphasis as well as the compare among different poets.But a lot of problems still exist, this text plans to mainly discuss the following questions, and the full text amounts to about 60,000 words.First, the definition of this type of poems, assert every poem with "knight" for displaying target or expressing common people's and author's attitude to "knight".Second, study on the origination and evolution of the poems before the Tang Dynasty and Tang dynasty. The poems and proverbs of pre-Qin period, Han dynasty and Wei period possess the essential features of poems;The poems in Wei Jin embody a concentrated expression of aspiration and independence that the poets make contributions and start one's career unruly. The period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties is the transformation period , on one hand the poems have displayed the showy life of the upper class , displayed the writers' having unrecognized talents and their thinking of destiny at the same time . The poems of Wei Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties have impassioned and vigorous characteristic and the increase of lyrical composition. In Sui Dynasty the poems have the trend back to Wei Jin period not only in the thought but also artistic respect.Third, in the Tang Dynasty, the raise individual character and competent spirit are identical specially with chivalrous person independence, reveal Tang people highly self-confident personality characteristic;Joining the army is regarded as a stepping-stone of the poets to participate political affairs , this kind of poems has revealed the poets' political zeal, because the complexity of "knight" consciousness, combining with open ideology of the Tang Dynasty, have produced the situation that many kinds of thoughts coexist in the "knight" poems;Certainly some of thesepoems describe the noble's playing target, but this part of poems are different from those of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.Fourth the artistic characteristic of the poems of this period lies in the strong style, especially paying attention to show chivalrous inherent quality. And the poets described the knight from a lot of respects with tactics of "many stars surrounding the moon" type , and not merely explain from a respect, make chivalrous person's image rich in the three-dimensional effect.