Tang poetry generally refers to poems written in the Tang Dynasty (6 18-907), and can also be extended to poems written in the style of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty is considered to be the golden age of China's highest level of poetry, so there is a saying of Tang poetry, which is combined with Song poetry. Most of the Tang poems are included in The Complete Poems of Tang Poetry. Since the Tang Dynasty, anthologies of Tang poetry have emerged continuously, and the most widely spread is "Three Hundred Tang Poems" compiled by retired scholars in Hengtang. Tang poetry is the most precious cultural heritage of the Han nationality and a pearl in the treasure house of Chinese culture, which also has great influence on the cultural development of neighboring nationalities and countries. The creation of Tang poetry can be divided into four stages according to time: early Tang, prosperous Tang, middle Tang and late Tang.

The Tang Dynasty (AD 6 18-907) was the heyday of the development of classical poetry in China. Tang poetry is one of China's outstanding literary heritages and a bright pearl in the world literature treasure house. Many poems are still widely circulated by us today. [ 1]

There were many poets in the Tang Dynasty. Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi and Wang Wei are world-famous great poets. Besides them, there are many other poets. Like the stars in the sky. There are more than 2,300 famous poets. 42,863 of their works were also preserved in The Whole Tang Poetry. Of course, the complete Tang poetry is not complete, and there are many gorgeous words and well-known poems that flow among hermits or disappear in the long corridor of history and are not treated positively. The themes of Tang poetry are very extensive: some reflect the class status and class contradictions of the society at that time and expose the darkness of feudal society; Some praise the just war and express patriotic thoughts; Some depict the beauty of the motherland's rivers and mountains; In addition, there are those who express their personal ambitions and experiences, those who express their children's feelings, those who tell friends' friendship, joys and sorrows of life, and so on; In short, natural phenomena, political dynamics, working life, social customs and personal feelings can't escape the poet's keen eyes and become the subject matter of their writing. In terms of creative methods, there are both realism and romanticism, and many great works are examples of the combination of these two creative methods, forming an excellent tradition of China's classical poetry.

There are various forms of Tang poetry. There are mainly five-character poems and seven-character poems in Tang Dynasty. There are also two kinds of modern poems, one is called quatrains, and the other is called metrical poems. Quatrains and metrical poems are five words and seven words respectively. Therefore, there are basically six basic forms of Tang poetry: five-character archaic poetry, seven-character archaic poetry, five-character quatrains, seven-character quatrains, five-character rhythmic poems and seven-character rhythmic poems. Classical poetry has a wide range of requirements for rhyme and meter: in a poem, the number of sentences can be more or less, the chapters can be long or short, and the rhyme can be changed. Modern poetry has strict requirements on rhyme and meter: the number of sentences in a poem is limited, that is, four-line quatrains and eight-line meter poems. The words used in each poem have certain rules, and the rhyme cannot be changed; Rhyme also requires that the middle four sentences become antithesis. The style of ancient poetry is handed down from the previous generation, so it is also called ancient style. Modern poetry has strict rules, so some people call it metrical poetry.