Tang Poetry

Name: Tang Poetry
Author: Scholar Goes Down The Mountain

by Scholar Goes Down The Mountain

ongoing History Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties Male Lead

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Ch. 2 — Tang Poetry Did Not Appear Out of Nowhere

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About This Novel

"Poems on the Tang Dynasty" is not a book that teaches people to memorize poems. It talks about: why the greatest poem in Chinese history appeared in the Tang Dynasty at the same time. Why did Li Bai dare to write "I am born with talents that will be useful"? Why does Du Fu always write about suffering? Why does Bai Juyi dare to speak for the common people? Why did Li Shangyin write the truth into riddles? Because behind them, they stand from the same era. This book uses Tang poetry as a clue to retell the true story of the Tang Dynasty for more than two hundred years: the wildness of the Tang Dynasty, the struggle of the Mid-Tang Dynasty, and the decline of the Late Tang Dynasty; the lights of Chang'an City, the wind and snow at the frontier, the poet's ambition, frustration, friendship and wandering. There is no "appreciation of ancient poems" or "central idea" here, only a group of people who have truly lived. You will see Li Bai drunkenly entered Chang'an, Du Fu was so poor that he picked up acorns, Bai Juyi offended the powerful by writing poems, Liu Yuxi still refused to bow down after being demoted for 23 years, and Wen Tingyun brought Chinese literature into the Song Dynasty in the sound of rain in the middle of the night. "Poems on the Tang Dynasty" is not about the poems themselves, but about the era behind the poems. Because Tang poetry has never been just literature. It is the youngest, most vast, and most unyielding eruption of Chinese civilization.