Tang Dynasty Poetry Research

The poetry of the court is the writing of the court officials’ experience of participating in the court,which is closely related to the actual court system.The court meeting was an important political activity for the ancient Kings to meet with their officials.The origin of the dynasty association system can be traced back to the ancient Yao-Shun-Yu period.In Tang dynasty,the court association system was developed and perfected,forming three fixed forms of the dynasty association,namely,the Zhengzhi Court,the Shuowang Court and the Constant Court.Different types of dynasty forms have different emphasis in nature and function,so the corresponding dynasty poems also reflect different styles.The Zhengzhi Court is the most important form of rites and music,with the basic purpose of promoting the monarchy and showing off the national power,which represents the ruling power of the tang dynasty.The rise and fall of the state and the change of the political situation have greatly influenced the style of Zhengzhi Court poetry.And the Constant Court is the most importantform of political function.On constant court,each official is supposed to do their duties,dealing with the government affairs as its main content,on behalf of the scholarofficial governance of the country’s political practice.Therefore,the influence of of official psychology and mental activity on the poetry of Tang dynasty is more direct and obvious.To sum up,this paper will sort out the historical features of the association system in Tang dynasty,and examine the different characteristics of the poems of the association and the poems of the dynasties in different periods.It is mainly divided into the following three chapters:The first chapter briefly introduces the form of the association system in Tang dynasty.The differences in the time,place,frequency,participants and function of the three different types of meetings were analyzed through historical data.In Tang dynasty,the Zhengzhi Court was held on the first day of each year and the winter solstice.It was the largest,most numerous and most ceremonious form of the court,and it also became the representative of the ceremonial nature of the court.The Shuowang Court is the second largest court in scale and etiquette.It is held on the first and 15th day of each month.Constant Court is held frequently,the officials who participate in the court are known as "constant official",their positions are important,reflects the administrative function of the court.The second chapter expounds the characteristics of the era of Zhengzhi poetry.Zhengzhi court is a ceremonial dynasty meeting that advocates the supreme position of the monarch and shows off the overall strength of the dynasty.In early Tang dynasty,when the dynasty entered the "Governance of Zhenguan",the poems in the meeting of the emperor praised the strong national strength of the tang dynasty,symbolized the Confucian ideal of literary governance of Taizong,and had an elegant and upright poetic style.After the rebellion of An Lushan,the national strength declined and the political atmosphere deteriorated in the middle tang dynasty.In late Tang dynasty,the dynasty was decayed,the imperial society system was destroyed,and the poetry momentum of the imperial society was no longer,which reflected the decline of the ritual of the imperial society scale.The third chapter analyzes the characteristics of Constant Court poetry in the tang dynasty.Constant Court is a political meeting that deals with political affairs in daily life.The color of rites and music is relatively light,so most of the Constant Court poems show the real feelings of the scholars and their official mentality.Stimulated by the rise of national strength and the beginning of the imperial examination,the scholars in early Tang dynasty formed a positive atmosphere of official promotion.They felt extremely honored to join the king in the court.However,due to the limitation of political status,they lacked vision and thought,so they only stayed at the level of showing off identity and court ceremony.In the flourishing Tang dynasty,the national strength was strong,the scholars were romantic and enterprising,and the wind of official advancement was high.In the middle and late tang dynasty,the state was declining,the government was in darkness,and the scholars’ enthusiasm for official advancement waned.