A Study On The Poem Of The Three Gorge In Tang Dynasty

The Three Gorges, which is located in Chinese Yangtze River Basin, is from its west at Baidicheng in Fengjie district of Chongqing city to its east at Nanjinguan in Yichang, Hubei Province. It consists of Qutang Gorge, Wu Gorge and Xiling Gorge in sequence from east to west with full length of 192 km.Down through the years, many literati and scholars have left their footprints in the Three Gorges, in which it includes many famous and excellent works that is spreading and inheriting Chinese thousands of years'context. The literature of Three Gorges originated from the work of Qu Yuan and Song Yu in the warring states period. After the enriching and developing by Yuan Shansong in Estern Jin, Sheng Hongzhi in Southern Dynasties, Li Daoyuan in Northern Wei Dynasty and so on, the expression style was always developing and it had preliminary established the aesthetic style and essential features of the literature of the Three Gorges.Especially in the Tang Dynasty, poetry became the dominant genre of the literature of the Three Gorges. A larger number of the Three Gorges poems appeared with the abundance of creation of the subjects, which showed the Three Gorge poetry'openness and diversification characteristics in the aspects of content form, artistic techniques, cultural implication, and so on, and reached a high level to outspread the natural and human painting of the Three Gorges district in Tang Dynasty with a panoramic view. This has provided many costful firsthand materials for the related researchers.Majesty of the Qutang Gorge, beautifulness of the Wu Gorge, precipitousness of the Xiling Gorge, and the amorous feelings of the mountains are reconstructed artistically in the poets'works. As the representation of the myth in the Three Gorges district, the "Goddess of Wu Mountain" is gradually endowed with its original meanings in the poems, this has had a profound influence for the later generations. As the representation of the Three Kingdoms remains and the celebrities and hometowns respectively, the Temple of Marquis Wu, and Qu Yuan, Wang Zhaojun and Song Yu had been the point of catalyst for the Tang people's thriving poetic inspirations, and the poetries for meditating on the past with respect to the Three Gorge had also been mature gradually. Also, the Three Gorges poems in the Tang Dynasty reflected the Three Gorge people's original living state, including the diet and living, the agriculture production, dividing the work between male and female, trading, and so on.The Three Gorge poetry in Tang dynasty showed its romantic and fantastic aesthetic style in the shrouding of the Wu culture. As two kinds of the series of images, "Wushan Yunyu" and "Sanxia Yuansheng", which originated from the Three Gorges literary, has broken through the geographical limitations and forwards become two classical symbols with rich implications that has had a profound influence for the development of Chinese literature. With the developing by Tang people, two of the poetic style, "Zhuzhici" and "Wushangao" have gradually finalized and become mature.The blending of the cultures of Sichuan and Chu state had branded the Three Gorges poems with a distinctive mark on local culture. It was an important channel for the Tang literati to ship through the Three Gorges to go to Sichuan. The transport value of the Three Gorges, the vicissitudes of the life of the literati, and the ups and downs of their official careers are all vividly embodied in the Three Gorges memorial poems. The Three Gorge poems in Tang dynasty are sounded like an all-around and collected folk cultural museum, in which spring country walk, boatrace, evocation, hanging coffin, and other unique mainland folk-customs appear vividly.