Try To Talk About The Music Of The Tang Dynasty Western Poetry

In Tang Dynasty, music and dancing from western regions werepopular and the scholars were the most important and active eyewitnesses,reporters and announcers of them. These scholars had left manywonderful poems about the music and dancing from western regions.According to "the Whole Tang Poetry", the author made rough statisticsand found about1003poems on this theme. Among these poems, somewere in praise of the instruments and music of western regions, somedescribed the motions, postures, the appearances of the dancers and alsosome recorded the feelings after enjoying the music and dance. Above all,the poetry about the music and dancing from western regions played anrole in poetry in Tang Dynasty. The paper aims at appreciating andanalyzing the poetry about the music and dancing from western regionsso as to summarize the rich content of the poetry about the music anddancing from western regions. Besides, the author will combine the socialenvironment, contemporary culture, aesthetic interest and so on to explainwhy the poetry about the music and dancing from western regions wasprosperous at that time and to expose the cultural and literary meaning ofthe poetry about the music and dancing from western regions in TangDynasty.The passage can be mainly divided into the following four parts: Firstly, the reasons why the poetry about the music and dancing fromFirstly, the reasons why the poetry about the music and dancing fromwestern regions were so popular in Tang Dynasty.In the author’s opinion, the stable social environment, the approval ondifferent cultures, the widespread entertaining habits, and the attentionand appreciation of the rulers are the reasons for the popularity of thepoetry about the music and dancing from western regions.Secondly, the rich implications of the poetry about the music anddancing from western regions. In tang poetry, the instruments includedPipa, Konghou, Bili, Qiangdi, Hu jia, Wuxian and so on and there aremany poems referred to them. In these poems, there are few ones that justdescribed how they enjoyed the music. Instead, most poems had deepermeanings and they had became tools for poets to express their emotions.These poems portrayed the moods and postures of the performers, caughtthe scenes of the performance, showed the exotic culture and expressedthe feelings at the border areas. What’s more, there are quite a largequantities of works which were in praise of the poor beauty--Zhao Jun.Thirdly, the artistic expression of the poetry about the music anddancing from western regions. Among these poems, there were somewhich particularly described the music and dancing of the westernregions. The poets gave full play to their abilities of creating, usingdifferent forms to the show the graceful postures and excellent dancing skills from many angles. Therefore, the poems have many uniquecharacteristics. For example, the features of the scenes were set in detail,the images were designed vividly, the rhythmic styles were createdunconstrainedly, various writing skills were used properly and so on.Fourth, the literary meaning and value of the poetry about themusic and dancing from western regions. They were mainly showed inthe following aspects. First of all, the poetry enriched the topics and theranges of the tang poetry. Second, it displayed vivid pictures of folkculture. Third, these poems also showed the process of culturalcommunication among different nationalities.To sum up, the poetry about the music and dancing from westernregions in Tang Dynasty not only greatly enriched the traditional cultureof China, but also broadened the cultural horizon of people in TangDynasty. Apart from these, the poems also made the people in TangDynasty become more open-minded and free to a certain extent.Therefore, the charm of the poetry about the music and dancing fromwestern regions in Tang Dynasty is worth further discussing andresearching.