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To appreciate Tang poetry, we must first have a brief understanding of the distinction between "modern poetry" and "ancient poetry". By mastering their respective characteristics, we can better appreciate their wonderfulness.

Ancient style poetry

Also known as ancient poetry or ancient style. This concept is different from the commonly referred to as "ancient poetry". It is a special noun, specifically referring to a style of poetry that was popular before the Tang Dynasty and continued to be popular in the Tang Dynasty. It exists relatively in line with the modern poetry formed in the Tang Dynasty. The characteristics of ancient poetry are: the number of sentences per article and the number of words per sentence is not limited, and it can be rhyme or not rhyme, and it can be changed. There is no requirement for the correspondence between sentences and sentences of the same tone and the requirements for the counterpart of words. In a word, ancient poetry is relatively free in terms of meter, and there are extremely strict requirements for the rhythm of modern poetry.

Ancient poetry is divided into two categories: five-character ancient poems and seven-character ancient poems (or abbreviated as the Five Ancient and Seven Ancients). In addition, there are ancient poems with different sentences, which are generally classified into the Seven Ancients. Some ancient poems have the same number of words and the same number of regulated poems, but the rhyme, tone and parallelism are different from the requirements of regulated poems, so they are still ancient poems. The "Nineteen Ancient Poems" mentioned above and the poems by Tao Yuanming and others are both ancient poems.

Modern poetry

Also known as modern poetry ("recent" and "recent" are both in the Tang Dynasty), which emphasize strict rhythm. Modern poetry has four basic requirements: one is the number of sentences and the number of words is stipulated; the second is the rhyme according to the prescribed rhyme; the third is the opposite and oblique between the characters in the previous and next sentences; the fourth is the parallelism between certain sentences, namely, nouns are used to nouns, verbs are used to verbs, adjectives are used to adjectives, etc.

Modern poetry is divided into two categories: (1) Regular verses, composed of eight sentences, the five-character verses are called five-character verses, and the seven-character verses are called seven-character verses. (2) Quatrains are composed of four sentences, the five-character quatrains are called five-character quatrains, and the seven-character quatrains are called seven-character quatrains. Let’s give examples respectively below. For example, the familiar Wang Zhihuan’s "Climbing the Stork Tower":

The sun is over the mountains and the Yellow River flows into the sea.

I want to see you thousands of miles away and go to a higher level.

This is a five-character quatrain, which must be four sentences and 20 characters. Secondly, it must select a rhyme character as rhyme according to the rhyme. The words "Liu" and "Lou" in this poem belong to the rhyme "Eleven You" rhyme. Thirdly, the characters it uses must conform to the prescribed tone format, so that it can be read in a different way and harmonious and pleasant way. The tone format of this poem is:

Pingxi Pingxi, Pingxi Pingxi Pingxi Pingxi Pingxi Ping.

Zeping Ping Zeze, Zeze Pingping Ping.

The characters marked with · can be flat or tiled, and the rest of the characters cannot be adapted. Ping—refers to the tone of the tone in ancient Chinese; Ze—refers to the upper tone, tiled, and tiled tone in ancient Chinese. According to Mandarin, Yinping (first tone), Yangping (second tone) belongs to Ping; the upper tone (third tone), and the tone (fourth tone) belongs to Ze. The upper tone (second tone) and tiled (fourth tone) belongs to Ze. The upper tone can be opposite or not between the upper and lower sentences of quatrain poems. The entire quatrain is parallel, and the last two sentences "want to be exhausted" are opposite to "up", "thousand miles" are opposite to "one floor", and "mu" is opposite to "stack".

Long song

Long song

An old friend killed chickens and cooked, and invited him to the village to be a guest. Looking close, the dense green trees surrounded the village tightly; looking far away, the green mountains extended to the distance. Open the window, you can see the courtyard piled with grains and the green vegetable garden; holding the wine glass, chatting enthusiastically about the growth and harvest of mulberry and hemp. In such a natural picture, how happy and comfortable it would be to drink mellow wine, eat delicious food, and indulge in laughter! After drinking, the friends were still reluctant to leave, and agreed to come back to celebrate on the Double Ninth Festival, drink fine wine, and enjoy the chrysanthemums.

Chu Guangxi is also a frustrated hermit. His "Diaoyu Bay" writes about the interest of seclusion:

Fishing in the green bay in spring, the apricot flowers are in chaos in spring.

The pond is clear and the water is shallow, and the lotus moves and the fish are scattered.

At dusk, waiting for lovers, waiting for the boat to the green willow shore. Green shade covers the sky, falling flowers float on the ground, clear ponds are at the bottom, lotus moves and fish scatters, fishermen's intention is not fish, this beautiful scenery alone is the best enjoyment. At dusk, fishing is tied to the boat, waiting for good friends (lovers) to meet each other among the green poplar grass. Isn't such a carefree life equal to a god? In fact, their lives will not be free from troubles and troubles. However, when writing poetry, you should temporarily put aside it, seize a beautiful scene and emotion, and exert it with all your heart. The poet satisfies his desire to create and brings beautiful enjoyment to readers. This is called poetry.

Frontier War Poems

During the foreign wars in the Tang Dynasty, many literati participated in it and had personal experiences of the frontier and military life. They joined the army without writing, wrote poems to describe the desolate frontier scenery, praised the bravery of the soldiers, or cursed the disasters brought by the war, so the frontier poetry school was formed. The famous poet Cen Shen's "Zhuma Chuanxing Sends the Soldiers to the West" is representative:

"Don't you see: I'm walking on the snowy beach... I'm sure I don't dare to take the opportunity to fight, and the West Gate of the Cheshi will stand for victory!" (Length limit, omitted

Li Bai (701-762 AD), whose courtesy name was Taibai and his pseudonym Qinglian Jushi, was the most outstanding poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and another great romantic poet after Qu Yuan in the history of Chinese literature. He is known as the "Poet Immortal". He experienced ups and downs and had complex thoughts. He was not only a genius poet, but also the temperament of a wanderer, an assassin, a hermit, a Taoist, a strategist, and a strategist. The three ideas of Confucianism, Taoism and a wanderer are reflected in him. "Successfully retired" is the dominant idea that dominated his life.

Li Bai, whose ancestral home is Chengji, Longxi (now Jingning County, Gansu Province), is said to be born in Suiye City, the Western Regions of Central Asia (near Tokmak City east of Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan). His ancestors were once in the Western Regions. He moved to Changlong, Sichuan (now Jiangyou County) at the age of five, and spent his youth here. Li Bai's family was rich, read a hundred books when he was a teenager, and showed extraordinary literary talent. At the same time, he was fond of friendship, influenced by friends and society, liked to talk about practicing Taoism and becoming an immortal, yearned for chivalrous and righteousness, generous and ambitious, and unrestrained. At the age of 25, he left his hometown, wandered around the Yangtze River, north and south of the Yellow River, made friends with celebrities, and gained a high social reputation through poetry and prose. In the first year of Tianbao (742 AD), he was recommended by his friend and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang summoned him.
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