The word "Tang Poetry and Song Poetry" has the same name as Tang Poetry and Song Poetry. Tang poetry and Song ci are two pearls in the history of China literature. The Tang Dynasty was called poetry, and the Song Dynasty was called poetry. Ci originated from the folk, began in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Five Dynasties and flourished in the Song Dynasty. With the enrichment of material life in Song Dynasty, people's pursuit of cultural life became more intense. Most poets in the Tang Dynasty were tools and playthings of the royal family and its rulers. Poets in the Song Dynasty jumped from the admired to the political arena and became the protagonists in the political arena in the Song Dynasty. The Emperor of Song Dynasty loved Ci, and ministers were all poets. Politicians Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and Su Shi were all famous poets, and poetess Li Qingzhao became synonymous, and her name was immortal. The recognition and admiration of the whole society have made Song Ci excellent for a long time and have far-reaching influence.

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Tang poem Song jambic verse

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Two Types of Ancient China Literature

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Tang Dynasty is the era of poetry, and Song Dynasty is the era of ci.

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Liu Zongyuan and Li Qingzhao

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Achievements of Tang poetry

Tang poetry and Song ci are two pearls in the history of China literature. The Tang Dynasty is called the era of poetry, and the Song Dynasty is called the era of ci. Ci originated from the folk, began in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Five Dynasties and flourished in the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, with the development of the city and the rise of the citizen class, people's pursuit of cultural life became more intense.

In the process of the development and prosperity of Song Ci, the guiding role of the whole society is also very obvious. If the poets in the Tang Dynasty were just tools and playthings of the royal family and its rulers to some extent, then the poets in the Song Dynasty have jumped from being appreciated to becoming the protagonists in the political arena in the Song Dynasty. Almost all the emperors in Song Dynasty loved Ci, and almost all the ministers in Song Dynasty were poets. Song Dynasty politicians Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and Su Shi were all famous poets at that time. Li Qingzhao, a woman who never appeared in feudal society, has also become synonymous, and her name will last forever. In the imperial examination at that time, there was a proverb: "Su Wen is cooked and eats mutton; Su Wensheng, eat vegetable soup. " This shows the extent to which the poet Su Shi was worshipped. It is the recognition and admiration of the whole society that makes Song Ci have enduring influence.

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The word "Tang poetry and Song poetry", collectively called Song poetry and Tang poetry, not only shows the meaning of "literature of an era has an era", but also shows that Song poetry is a major poetic style comparable to Tang poetry. Song Ji inherited the Tang Dynasty, but as Mr. Lu Xun said, almost all the good poems were written by the Tang people. So in the Song Dynasty, it was really difficult for Song people to keep up with the pattern of Tang people in poetry creation. However, the rich literary heritage left by the Tang people was not wasted by the Song people, but was more flexibly used in the poetic style of "Ci", which made Ci gain unprecedented development in the Song Dynasty.

When we discuss the relationship between Song Ci and Tang Poetry, we often pay more attention to the difference between Song Ci and Tang Poetry. Differences are really important and important. In the Song Ci part of this book, the author also focuses on the most important artistic features of Song Ci (of course, it is also different from Tang Poetry). But in this introduction, just as we must explain the inheritance relationship between Tang poetry and the previous generation before discussing the artistic characteristics of Tang poetry, we must also explain the inheritance relationship between Song poetry and Tang poetry. To be sure, it is absolutely inconceivable that Song Ci can achieve such outstanding achievements, if it is not based on such outstanding achievements and such skillful skills of Tang Poetry. From the later excavation of Dunhuang Quzi Ci, it can be seen that before entering the hands of the text, Quzi Ci was no different from the previous folk songs except for the uneven sentence length, and the same was mainly expressed in a simple, simple and straightforward way. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, after the literati began to experiment with the lyrics, just like all the changes from folk literature to literati literature, the lyrics also changed unconsciously, gradually showing the literati's color, and therefore more artistic (of course, there will be negative effects, such as less simplicity and frankness, but this proportion is secondary).

Bai Juyi and Liu Yuxi were important poets in the Tang Dynasty. They first tried to create ci, especially Wen and Wei Zhuang, who created a lot of ci later. Their participation will inevitably bring their poetry creation skills to the creation of ci. In addition, poets in the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty were almost all poets. They write poems and write lyrics at the same time, so the skills of Tang poetry naturally blend into the creation of ci, making the creation of ci more exquisite. In fact, as long as the art of Song Ci is slightly analyzed, it will be found that Song Ci has an obvious inheritance relationship with Tang poetry, whether it is the use of images, the lyrical technique of scenery description, the creation of ci context, or even the tempering of language, metonymy and the use of allusions. Such as the following Qin Guan's noun "86 sons":