A Research On Tang Herbs Industy From The Perspective Of Tang Poems

The Tang Dynasty is a prosperous era of both the Chinese ancient poem andancient Chinese medicinal herbs industry development. There are a plenty of tangpoetry referred to the tang dynasty herbs industry which made the two forming a closerelationship. From perspective of investigation of combination of the tang poetry andherbs industry, it can be found a new level to know the social economic conditions ofTang Dynasty.Herbs production can be found in Tang poetry. The source of herbs materials inTang Dynasty has two--one is wild medicinal materials collection another is artificialcultivation; and the wild collection and artificial cultivation of herbs in Tang Dynastyare common and its scale is large. Besides gathering herb, Bureaucratic literaryintelligentsia, Taoist hermit, monk, Buddha, herb farmers and even from the central tolocal government often have their own special or herbal garden. Picking, planting andproducing herbs are popular in the whole society, especially herbs production, whichis paid more attention to and becomes a special industry in the whole society.The Tang poetries present herb trade. Herb materials trade is extremely active inthe Tang Dynasty. Different size enterprises spread from the city to rural in the wholecountry. The nomadic pharmacologists who wander in the urban and the rural havebecoming an important force in herb trade. Herb materials trades do not only happenin their daily life, but also form herb city and national herb market in some places.The reasons why Tang herbs became prosperous can be found in Tang poetry. Aplenty of Tang poetries proved why Tang herbs became prosperous obviously: thedemand for the herbs among Tang sickness; the promotion of Buddhist and Taoistculture especially Taoist; Tang people’s emphasizing in herbs on the function ofhealthy care in their daily life;herbs are the key medium for communication amongTang people; producing herbs is one industry of Tang people, herb is an importantcommodity; the environment of commercial economy in Tang Dynast is superior andis beneficial to herb trade; The Tang Dynasty is a prosperous era of Chinese ancientPharmacology; the import and export of herbs are frequent in Tang Dynasty.In brief, a plenty of Tang poetries on herbs indicate: in a sense, Tang poem is theactual and vivid record of Tang people’s life and production, herb industry and Tangpoem achieved common prosperity at that period; the herb industry in Tang Dynastycreated a certain degree of prosperity；the awareness of using herbs in healthy careamong Tang people is relatively high; the herbs industry in Tang dynasty isprosperous and it has its own bright time characteristics, and the prosperity of herbsnot only made a commercial manner of various managements for the herb farmers butalso made feudal bureaucrats, friars, monks coming into this economic front.