The Study Of Butterfly Image In Tang Poetry

The butterfly is popular and love by people for its unique appearance and living habits.As a tiny creature,after a long time of different ages’ aesthetics,it is no longer an object,but an important image full of meanings.The Tang Dynasty was a mature period for the development of the butterfly image.Whether the numbers of poems about butterfly or the techniques of expression for butterfly image,it has obvious changes compared with the previous times,and it also forms the unique features of the butterfly image in Tang Dynasty.On the theme of butterfly image,the paper is divided into five parts based on the poetry about butterfly image recorded in the "All Tang Poetry".The first part mainly introduces the meaning,research status and research methods of this title,and try to make a accurate position for the academic value of “The Study of Butterfly Image in Tang Poetry”.The second part teases out the butterfly image appeared in the classics before Tang Dynasty.It clarifies the formation and evolution about butterfly image in Pre-Tang.The third part summarizes the characteristics of butterfly image in the different periods of Tang Dynasty.As the focus of this paper,the fourth part analyzes the Tang scholars’ emotion and mentality reflected in the butterfly image,from theromantic enjoyment,thoughts and nostalgia,illusive dreamland,political allegoryand so on.In the fifth part,it sums up the techniques of creating butterfly image by Tang people from the image combination and rhetoric two respects.And it shows Tang poets’ rich talent and artistic realm of beauty.