Education and Literature in the Tang Dynasty
by Guo Li
About This Novel
The book starts from the perspective of the Tang Dynasty's education system, educational ideas, and educational content that had a tangible impact on the literati and literature of the Tang Dynasty. It believes that the three major factors of the Tang Dynasty's education system, political environment, economic conditions, and book circulation worked together to promote the socialization of educational resources in the Tang Dynasty; respecting saints and Confucianism, as the basic educational ideology of the Tang Dynasty, In the early Tang Dynasty, Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu, the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and the late Tang Dynasty, they had different effects on the thoughts and literary creations of literati. In the Tang Dynasty, Confucian classics education had a complete system. The compilation of the official Confucian classics textbook "Five Classics of Justice" made Confucian classics as language and allusion materials integrated into the literati's knowledge reserve and entered their literary creations. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Confucian education focused on the "Book of Filial Piety" and emphasized ethics, which was not unrelated to the formation of the elegant and vigorous literary style of this period. After the Anshi Rebellion, the focus of Confucian classics education shifted downwards, from being dominated by central official schools to being dominated by private schools. This led to the enhancement of the scholar's subject consciousness in the social ideological and cultural fields. As a result, the relationship between Chinese and Taoism was further deepened by using poetry to express the scholars' exploration in the social ideological field; Tang Dynasty literature The main contents of literary education are books, "Selected Works", poetry patterns, etc. The specific activities of literary education rely on these educational contents to inherit literary knowledge and creative experience. This makes literary education and learning methods also reflect the step-by-step improvement process from reading accumulation to imitation proficiency to experience and perception. The content of literary education in the Tang Dynasty left a relatively distinct imprint on the creations of the Tang people, which is most obvious in the reference of content, the acquisition of themes, the absorption of allusions, and the use of parallels.
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