Study On Natural Disaster Poems In Tang Dynasty

"Natural disaster poetry" refers to the poetry describing the irresistible destruction and obstruction caused by natural forces to the normal production and life of human beings.The Tang Dynasty is an era of high incidence of natural disasters in history.Based on the statistical data of the history of natural disasters in the Tang Dynasty based on "The Old Book of Tang","The New Book of Tang" and "Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance",This thesis analyzes and explores the occurrence and development of various types of historical disasters in the Tang Dynasty,focuses on the investigation of social factors.At the same time,with the imperial edicts and other auxiliary materials related to the theme of natural disasters,this thesis makes an in-depth study of the creation situation,poetic style and emotional expression of natural disaster poetry in various periods of the Tang Dynasty.By comparing the poems about natural disasters with the history of natural disasters in Tang Dynasty,this thesis explores the ideological connotation of poems about natural disasters and expresses the social root of the change from prosperity to decline in Tang Dynasty.Also,it achieves the academic value of supplementing history with poetry and verifying each other between literature and history.The study of natural disaster poetry in Tang Dynasty is mainly divided into the following five aspects:The first is the flood poems of the Tang Dynasty,and uses the natural attributes of the floods as the poetry classification criteria.The flood poems are divided into two parts: the flood poems and the waterlogging poems,and from the rendering of flood in the flood poems,combined with the natural disasters in the Tang Dynasty historical facts,restore the real from the poetry of Tang Dynasty flood scene,focus on flood disaster itself to the people,on the destructive force of the production and living,highlight the field of flood disaster and authenticity.At the same time,based on the important time nodes and major historical events at that time,through the volume and concentration of poetry creation,the poet's inner feelings,personal ideals and other emotional connotations expressed in the poetry when facing floods are analyzed,focusing on the floods.The social emotions,sorrows,or sorrows in the poem all reflect the existence and fermentation of the social crisis at that time,stripping a deeper time background for the creation of flood poems,in order to achieve mutual evidence between poetry and history.Finally,from the perspective of the characteristics of poetry creation,it presents two major creation characteristics: the rich emotional connotation of creation and the construction of characters under flood disaster conditions.The second is the drought poems of the Tang Dynasty,and classifies them into three seasonal drought categories: spring drought,summer drought and winter drought.The analysis focuses on the poems' description of the drought disaster in the Tang Dynasty,investigates the social crisis caused by the drought disaster reflected in the drought poems..In the research on drought poems,it is found that two special categories of poems contained in drought poems are: poems for rain joy and poems for praying for rain.The creation motivation of poems for rain joy is mainly lies in the particularity of the historical background,and most of them are made for worship and adaptation,but there are also some famous works on the expression of sorrow for the world.The research focus of poems for praying for rain lies in its record of the rituals of praying for rain in the Tang Dynasty and the embodiment of its emotional value.Throughout the overall creation of the drought poems,there are two major themes:suffering the heat and drought relief.The reflection of the theme of suffering the heat mainly lies in the influence of the hot and scorching weather on the actual life of the people under the environment of drought.The main theme of the drought relief poems is the expression of the pity of the affected farmers.The third is the freezing disaster poems of the Tang Dynasty.The creative peak of the freezing disaster poems is mainly concentrated in the middle and late Tang period.The research focus of this chapter on the freezing poems mainly focuses on the creative connotation,through the freezing disaster poems describing the cold weather,it shows that the political environment at the end of the Tang Dynasty has entered a period of decadent decline,and the decline of this dynasty,the loss of the ruling position of the ruler,and the social state of the people are full of the poet's writing.From poems into the reason,from the scene into sentiment.The abnormal climate of the frost disaster is related to the air distribution of the country,which reflects the poets' mission to the nation's literati,which makes the freezing disaster poems reflect its social value as well as its historical function.The fourth is the wind disaster poems,epidemic disaster poems and fire disaster poems in the Tang Dynasty.From the content of the poems,the scenes and situations of wind disasters,epidemic disaster and fire disaster are described in detail,and the scene of the disaster is restored.Although the volume is small,it enriches the theme of natural disaster poetry,and has its value in the function of poetry as evidence of history.The last chapter discusses the overall characteristics of the poems about natural disasters in Tang Dynasty and their views on natural disasters,as well as the countermeasures of the poems about natural disasters.The statistical analysis of the number of natural disaster poems reveals a certain imbalance between the peak period of natural disaster poetry creation and the historical record of natural disasters.By statistical analysis of the number of natural disaster poems,the imbalance between the peak period of natural disaster poetry creation and the historical record of natural disaster is found out,and the reasons for its formation are analyzed.In terms of the characteristics of natural disasters poetry creation,it is found that the most important feature is documentary and narrativity,because it presents the fatal impact of natural disasters on people and society,the poets are mostly victims or rescuers at the scene of disasters,facing cruel natural disasters,their poems are usually sorrowful.At the same time,with supplement by the allusions of ghosts,and then the poems realize the artistic value of compassion and criticism of the situation.