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Poetry does not need to make sense. It's good if you can imagine that scene. Scholar Yi Zhongtian's latest masterpiece "Reading Tang Poems" in 2019 uses modern interpretation methods, a photographer's perspective, and Yi's rich-style writing to interpret the poetic and artistic meaning of 56 top Tang poems in his mind. The book is divided into five series: Spring Dawn, Autumn Thoughts, Mountain Dream, Jiangye, and Frontier Fortress. The Tang poems selected in each series become more and more emotional. Similarly, the emotions of the photography works accompanying the main text also fluctuate, from the delicate beauty of the south of the Yangtze River, the singing of orioles and the dancing of swallows, to the rich thoughts of autumn, to the vast desert and starlight beyond the Great Wall. At the back of the book, there is detailed basic knowledge of Tang poetry: verse style, meter, quatrains, rhymed verses, five-character, seven-character, flat and oblique, flat and straight, sticky pairs, rhyme, and antithesis, covering all the knowledge that beginners need. This collector's edition of photography illustrations talks about artistic conception, storytelling, and rhythm, and teaches you the basic techniques for appreciating tens of thousands of Tang poems. Yi Zhongtian's "Reading Tang Poems" is a shortcut for wandering in the splendid world of Tang poetry.