Quan Deyu’s Poetry About Family

Quan Deyu is the leader of the literary world during the Mid-Tang dynasty. for various reasons, the status of his place in the history of Chinese literature has not been given due attention. However, Quan’s poetry, especially its poetry about family, had played an important role in poetry creation, serving as a link between past and future, which cannot be ignored. In Zhenyuan and Yuanhe, He had entered into his official career by his outstanding articles and became one of the most important persons of ruling group. He is not only a famous politician, but also a writer who’s good at poem and article, known as the great respected master in literary world at that time. Quan’s production of poetry is quantity, going down to posterity more than forty three hundred, in which, the poetry on family accounted for over one-sixth. These poems have a sincere feeling and involve wide range relatives’object, with a unique personality different from the trend of the times. To study his part of the poetry can not only help us fully understand the true personality and emotion experience of the famous prime minister of middle Tang Dynasty, but also benefit for analysis of the social features.This paper attempts to start from Quan’s life experiences and then analyze carefully on his poetry’s classification and artistic characteristics. On the content it can be divided into three categories:to the elders, to the younger peers and to the juniors,, which, because of the special gifts in poetry and the paradigm of meaning, the poems to his wife is separate to be a independent chapter, as the keystone of this article; For the elders who have rich life experiences, Quan’s poetry mainly stand on "Hermitage "; for peers, his words are more concentrated in "Endeavour"; and for the younger generation, it is "Favor" that he would always love to say, without any arrogant of feudal patriarch; As for his wife, Quan is full of enthusiasm even more, wrote poems for her for more than thirty years, covering all aspects of married life. His poems for wife has a different meaning of paradigm. To find out the features of the artistic characteristics of Quan’s poetry, his usual language on landscape, preferred language on emotion and the creation techniques with a unique personality will be analyzed in the second portion, which in order to understand Quan’s poetry on family not only on poems’ content, but also from the poetry form, trying to grasp the significance of achievements of the literary world leaders of Tang Dynasty in the field of family poetry creation better.