The Tang Dynasty is a well-known paradise for poetry. The so-called "Yuan Qu of Tang Poetry and Song Poetry" ascribes poetry to the Tang Dynasty, which also shows the position and monopoly of the Tang Dynasty in the history of poetry. There are different opinions about the reasons for the prosperity of Tang poetry since ancient times. To sum up, the economy, politics, culture, history and other aspects of the Tang Dynasty are extremely suitable for the development of poetry, thus making it reach an unprecedented peak in the Tang Dynasty.

The developed economy in Tang Dynasty laid a solid material foundation for the prosperity of Tang poetry. Historically, China in the Tang Dynasty was a big country in China, and the Tang Dynasty was a peak of the development of feudal society. Such a prosperous economy provides the necessary conditions for such things as art. Simply put, if people still don't have enough to eat and their brains can move at any time, I'm afraid it's not a good time to express poetry. However, in the Tang dynasty, the country was rich and strong, and there was Taizong Zhenguan before it. Later, Du Shiyun of Xuanzong Kaiyuan said: "The rice is fat and white, and the public and private granaries are rich." In ancient times, society almost reached the point of great harmony. In such an era of peace and prosperity, poetry has found fertile ground for vigorous development.

The loose political policy implemented in the Tang Dynasty also played a very important role in the prosperity of poetry. A series of policies and measures implemented by the rulers, such as the coexistence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, opening up the way and selecting scholars by poetry and fu, are another social reason for the prosperity of Tang poetry.

First of all, the Tang Dynasty, as the royal family that ruled this dynasty, was the leader of the Tang Dynasty and had an unprecedented mind and vision. More importantly, the Tang Dynasty was an unprecedented ethnic integration in the history of China. Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, was also of foreign origin, so the ethnic policy of the Tang Dynasty was unprecedentedly enlightened. "It is precisely because of this political background that the Li Dynasty can face foreign civilizations with unprecedented confidence, and such confidence is difficult to achieve. The national policy pursued by Datang is "China is safe, and the outside world is four-self", and foreigners are treated equally. Many foreign cultures have been integrated into China culture, showing China's great power. The self-confidence of the Tang Dynasty gave the poet the mentality of "reaching the peak, the other mountains all appear dwarfs under the sky.". ",the national culture is prosperous.

Secondly, the Tang Dynasty attached great importance to poetry. Yan Yu's Cang Lang Shi Hua said: "Or ask:' Why does Tang poetry win over our court?' The Tang Dynasty learned from poetry, so there was a lot of specialized knowledge, so my poetry was not as good as mine. Although it is not comprehensive, it is also one of the reasons that cannot be ignored. In the fourth year, Gaozu Wude took the senior high school entrance examination. In the first game, he took an examination of poetry and prose, and each poem required 12 sentences. Emperor Taizong opened the [Literature Pavilion] and the "Hong Wen Pavilion" to recruit writers. As the saying goes, "the top is better, and the bottom is more effective", "The courage of the king is lighter than that of the people." King Chu Ling has a thin waist, but there are many hungry people in the country. "The rulers of the Tang Dynasty even went to North Korea. More than 48,900 poems were recorded in The Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty compiled during the Kangxi period, among which Li Shimin's Ten Poems of Imperial Capital ranked first. Later Gaozong, Zetian, Zhongzong, Zong Rui and Xuanzong master Li Longji all attached great importance to this point. Not only that, there are not a few harem beauties and princesses who can write poems among royal family members, and their leading and promoting role can not be ignored.

Moreover, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty paid more attention to poetry and poets, and rarely publicized literary ci prisons, grandstanding. Emperor Taizong had hoped to send him to be buried, Emperor Xuanzong had sent He to Siming, and Emperor Xuanzong had hanged Bai Juyi. Even poets who have committed capital crimes have compiled and published them for them to show immortality. Such tolerance is rare in all previous dynasties. Poems chanting epic poems and allegorical poems in Tang Dynasty are straightforward and sharp. Compared with Su Dongpo, who was demoted in the previous generation, or the massacre in the Qing Dynasty, the poets in the Tang Dynasty were very lucky. Their king was not particularly neurotic or overly suspicious, otherwise, with the writing at that time, he would be beheaded in nine cases out of ten.

The third point is culture, which is also one of the indispensable conditions for the prosperity of Tang poetry. Here, culture refers to the cultural background. First, from the secrets of the Tang Dynasty to the court to the scenes of life, nothing can be written into poetry. The content is one hundred times richer than that of the previous generation, the meter is more mature and complete, realism and romanticism coexist, and two poetic styles, ancient and modern, are born. Rich cultural background, another point in the cultural background is that the poets in the Tang Dynasty are not limited to princes and princes, and the authors of the whole Tang poetry compiled in the Qing Dynasty are not only literati and emperors and princes, but also "ordinary people, peddlers, pawns, monks and nuns, pedophiles, fishermen and even beggars". In this cultural atmosphere, the vigorous development of Tang poetry is completely understandable and an inevitable trend.

The last reason is that the relatively poor historical accumulation has laid a good foundation for the dominance of Tang poetry. Before the Tang Dynasty, although there was the song of The Book of Songs, it was in the style of Chen Gongliang, but there was no peak to look up to. You can draw with a blank sheet of paper, do what you want, and naturally feel free to write freely. This makes future generations look like Mount Tai in sight, covering the sky, keeping an eye on everything, and sometimes feeling sad. Mr. Lu Xun once said

To sum up, there are reasons for the prosperity of Tang poetry. No matter from the economic, political, cultural, historical and other aspects, the Tang Dynasty was more qualified than the European Renaissance, which provided an unprecedented excellent environment for poetry creation and made Tang poetry shine like a bright pearl in the cultural history of China.