Research On The Peony Poems In The Tang Dynasty

With the development of social economy, the peony was widely planted and gradually came into the literati’s creative vision in the Tang Dynasty, becoming the object of literati’s appreciation and the carrier of emotional expression. This article starts from the peony poems in the Tang Dynasty and combines the background of that time with subject of the peony poem to analyze the connotations of the peony poems and embody the emotional changes.In the Tang dynasty, literati are the most important part in the peony poem because of their unique vicissitudes. They borrowed the implicit and meaningful characteristics of the Yongwu poetry to empress their inner emotions and thoughts. Empresses and geisha often compared themselves to flowers, manifesting their inner feelings while the parties themselves tended to express their peaceful and indifferent attitude. The Tang people focus on peony mainly in three aspects---form, flavor and color, which are reflected in peony poems in the Tang Dynasty.The social background at that time has a great effect on the prosperity of peony poems in the Tang Dynasty. From cultural background, the imperial examination system and the prosperity of the Buddhist in the late Tang Dynasty provide fertile cultural soil for the flourishment of peony poems. From the literary aspect, the development of Yongwu poetry directly contributes to the prosperity and development of peony of Tang poetry in the Tang dynasty.The peony poetry of the Tang Dynasty contains abundant connotation. The poets depict the beautiful form of peony, taste the inner beauty of peony, or express their ambitions from the peony poems. Portraying the beautiful form of peony mainly includes two aspects: chanting the fragrance of the peony and depicting the beauty of the peony. Reviewing the inner beauty of the mainly includes three aspects:praising the character of the peony, praising the status of the peony, and criticizing the tendency of libertinism. While expressing the ambitions from the peony poems, the poets use peony to express their life experience, or to express their homesick, in addition, the peony is often regarded as a symbol of friendship or love.Faced with different social backgrounds, the poets show different emotional experience and cultural mentality in the poem peony of Tang Dynasty. The prosperity of Tang Dynasty contributes to the peace and vigor in the peony poem. With heyday gradually drifted away, the peony poetry in the late Tang Dynasty showed significant insolent and lonely. The precarious situation of Imperial in late Tang Dynasty reflects the helplessness the sadness in peony poetry.Since the Tang Dynasty poet’s peony came into view, the carriers become poets to express inner feelings. In the face of colorful, beautiful noble peony, the poet emotion well, created a series of rich, emotional unique peony poems, showing a vivid picture of the magnificent era.Since peony came into the Tang Dynasty poets’ vision, it has become the carrier of their inner feelings expression. Faced with colorful, glamorous and noble peonies, poets created a series of peony poems in rich and unique emotions, which showing a vivid and magnificent picture of the era.