Zhaoming Beginning Of Tang Dynasty Poetry,

Zhaoming Wenxuan (Selected Literature by Prince Zhaoming), edited in Liang Dynasty, became a particular subject since early Tang Dynasty, and then became a literary canon in High Tang. However, the state of its circulation and influence was not very clear because of few documents in hundreds of years. Scholars worked hard on tracing its state back to Xiao Gai in Sui Dynasty, while Wenxuan Xue (Study on Wenxuan) was just the academic way which could not present its circulation and influence as a general literary collection in that time.In my view, the flourish of Wenxuan Xue in Tang stimulated Wenxuan to greater effect in poetry, and yet they are not the same things to be an academic study and a ready source of poetry. Systematic study on poets from Early Tang to High Tang who adopted Wenxuan was insufficient. Scholars only talked about the examples and accepted conclusions in some old scriptures, or did not differentiate them among early, high, middle and late Tang. Obviously, this was not the fact.This dissertation aims at exploring the relation of Wenxuan and poetry in early and high Tang by electronic searching and doing close reading on thousands of poetry which were written by a few hundreds of poets, and the conclusions are as follows:First, the top ten literary man from Wenxuan who effected most in Tang is: Cao Zhi, Jiang Yan, Xie Lingyun, 19 Classical Poems, Lu Ji, Bao Zhao, Xie Tiao, Pan Yue, Shen Yue and Zuo Si.Second, poets in Tang mainly adopted Poetry, Fu, Sao and Ci from Wen Xuan. In sixty volumes which were annotated by Li Shan, Volume 29, 27, 23, 30, 31, 21 were adopted many times, while Volume 44, 38, 52, 49 were rarely adopted.Third, court poetry, some kind of object-chanting poetry, religious poetry, memorial poetry, and so on, used Wen Xuan less on account of remote themes.