A Study On The Basic Aesthetic Form Of Poems In Tang Dynasty

The aesthetic formation of Chinese aesthetics is the combination of the unique aesthetic taste and practice of the Chinese people. They not only have the common characteristics of human aesthetic activities, but also the differences between various nationalities. The evolution of aesthetic form reflects the change of culture. Poetry is the essence of language. It uses repeatedly selected and the most suitable language to express the most beautiful, rich and subtle thoughts and feelings. During the Tang dynasty, literary masters come forth in large numbers, and various masterpieces appeared, the art of poetry reached to its peak in both rhythm and strength. The aesthetic formation reflected by it can not cover all the aesthetic formations of ancient Chinese, but it do have representativeness.In this thesis, the first chapter introduces the historical and cultural background of the Tang Dynasty poetry. It narrates the reasons of Tang Dynasty poetry’s prosperity from the macro and micro angles. And it also explores the preparation of poetry in the early Tang Dynasty for the prime time of Tang poetry. The second chapter to the sixth chapter is the core part of this paper. In the second chapter, Wang Wei and Meng Haoran’s pastoral poetry are listed as examples. Their poems mainly show the aesthetic formation of intangibility, which contain otherworldly static interest and metaphysical pleasure. The third chapter consists of frontier poems by Gao Shi, Cen Can and some other poets. Their poems mainly display the aesthetic formation of inner energy and rhythm, which have characteristics as highlighting the vitality and seeing beyond the external appearances. The fourth chapter uses poems from the poet Li Bai. His poems are examples of aesthetic formation of elegance, which depict the beauty of vigor, broad, fresh and natural. The fifth chapter contains poems from Du Fu as major examples. The key aesthetic formation is connotation of great love and sadness, which are full of emotional experience of sorrow and indignation as well as senses of life’s desolation and history’s boundlessness. The sixth chapter is about artistic conception. It’s a summarizing aesthetic formation shared by all the poems in the Tang poetry. The performance feature of artistic conception is the fusion of feelings with the natural settings; its structural feature is the complement of false and true and its aesthetic effect is implication of infinite charm.The aesthetic form of Tang poetry evolved from the Tang Dynasty’s historical and cultural background. At the same time, the Tang culture was also influenced by Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Therefore, different aesthetic forms link merge and permeate with each other. So the poetry of respective poet has one of the aesthetic form as the main tendency, while at the same time, it also has features of other aesthetic forms.