(A) The representative works of literary research in the Tang Dynasty in the 1980s

Academic monographs were developed solidly in the 1980s. A very important book, such as Textual Research on Poets in Tang Dynasty (Fu Xuanyan Zhonghua Book Company 1980), was an important work that opened the atmosphere in the early 1980s. As for Tang poetry, Lin Geng's Three Hundred Poems of Tang Poetry (People's Literature Publishing House 1987) is a collection of many articles. The content of this book has been criticized as "extensive and profound", not only because it has profound explanations in the long papers on the artistic achievements of Tang poetry from all aspects, but also because it has unique novelty. Even in some short essays, the profound and wonderful artistic analysis is amazing. [1](P255) Liu Kaiyang's General Theory of Tang Poetry (Sichuan People's Publishing House 198 1) is "the first research monograph on the development of Tang poetry after the interference of ultra-left ideological trend." [2](P 1326) This book continues to divide Tang poetry into four stages: the early stage, the prosperous stage, the middle stage and the late stage, and explores the achievements and characteristics of its poems with the main poets in each stage as clues. There are two books of the same name in the study of Tang poetics, namely, An Introduction to Tang poetics by Chen Bohai (Knowledge Publishing House 1988) and An Introduction to Tang poetics by Yang Guo (Guangxi People's Publishing House 1989). Chen Bohai believes that "the study of Tang poetry can not stop at the accumulation of materials and the compilation of writers' works, but must further explore the clues between these individual and local literary factors in order to grasp the overall situation of Tang poetry." [3](P3) Therefore, he made a comprehensive exposition on the characteristics, origin, evolution and style of Tang poetry. Yang Guo's Introduction to Tang Poetry mainly combs some basic theoretical concepts of Tang poetry, discusses the stages, styles, schools, famous artists and poetic remarks of Tang poetry, and also expresses his own views on the meter, rhyme, rhythm and intonation of Tang poetry. On this issue, the relationship between Tang literature and Buddhism has also attracted the attention of scholars. Sun Changwu's Literature and Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty (Shaanxi People's Publishing House 1985) pays attention to this research. Luo Zongqiang's History of Literary Thought in Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties (Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House 1986) initiated the history of literary thought. The literary chronicle of the Tang Dynasty also began to appear in this period, and Xiong Du's Tianbao Literary Chronicle (Chongqing Publishing House 1986) was published in this period.

There are few novels and notes in the Tang Dynasty. The more important ones are Collation of Tang Yulin by Zhou Xunchu (Collation by Zhonghua Book Company 1986), (Wu Zhida Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House 198 1) and Legend of Tang Dynasty (Li Zong is Zhonghua Book Company 1985). Tang Yulin is a classic work about the essays of the Tang Dynasty, and Mr. Zhou Xunchu's finishing work is exquisite and rigorous. This book is known as "the master of Tang Yulin's collation and research" [4](P259). Wu Zhida discussed the name, origin, reasons for the rise, general situation of development, content expression, artistic achievements and its position and influence in the history of literature of the Tang Dynasty in his book Legend of the Tang Dynasty. In order to divide the development stages of Tang legends, Li Zong introduced the evolution process and ideological and artistic characteristics of Tang legends in detail.

In the 1980s, the study of Tang literature focused on the ancient prose movement and its writers, and more than 10 high-quality works appeared. Among them, Sun Changwu's Introduction to the Ancient prose movement in Tang Dynasty (Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House 1984) is the most representative, which is a history of dating literature. Many of these expositions are full of insights. For example, when discussing the origin of the "ancient prose movement", they criticized those narrow prejudices that lacked the historical development view, and thought that "in essence,' ancient prose' is a new product in the history of literature, and' ancient prose movement' is a movement to comprehensively innovate style and literary prose." [5](P4)

In the study of writers and works in the Tang Dynasty, Li and Du Fu are the focus of the study. In the 1980s, there were 2 1 books by Li Bai and 26 books by Du Fu. Among them, the representative achievement is Chen's A Commentary on Du Fu (Volume I) (Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House 1982). This book "whether it is the arrangement of the length structure, the integration of comments in the description, the application of vertical and horizontal comparison, comprehensive investigation and other methods, or the interspersed textual research, is for one purpose: to restore and shape the true image of social welfare." [6] (P136) Because it is written in the style of a novel, this book has plots and is an excellent work with great weight. So far, no one in Du Fu's biographies has surpassed it. During this period, Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Bai Juyi and Li Shangyin were also the focus of the study, and the representative achievements were Chronicle of Han Changli (Revised Edition) (Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House noted Chronicle of Qian Zhongshu 1984) and Poems of Li Shangyin (Liu Xueyan, Yu Shucheng Zhonghua Book Company1).

Research on Tang Dynasty Literature in 1990s

(B) The representative works of Tang literature research in 1990s.

In 1990s, the literature research of the Tang Dynasty made various textual researches and discussions on the life and works of the writers of the Tang Dynasty. The outstanding work of textual research on the writer's life is the book Tang Talents edited by Fu Xuancong, which brings together a group of famous research experts. The work done "has actually surpassed the collating function of Biography of Talented Talents in Tang Dynasty and developed into a database for textual research on the deeds of poets in Tang Dynasty, which is of great significance in the construction of historical materials of Tang poetry" [7] (P440); The representative works of writers' critical biography are Liu Yuxi's critical biography (Bian, Bian Min Nanjing University Press 1996) and Du Fu's critical biography (Mo Lifeng Nanjing University Press 1993). Outstanding achievements in the study of writers' poetry include "A Study of Li Shangyin's Poetry" (Liu, Anhui University Press, 1998) and so on. There are more than 10 books, such as Li Bai's Thought and Art (Ge Jingchun Zhongzhou Ancient Books Publishing House 199 1), which have studied the writer's thought and art. From a cultural point of view, Tang poetry was revealed by the climax of the poetic country and the culture of the prosperous Tang Dynasty (Ge Peking University Publishing House 1998). After the mid-1990s, a number of works paid attention to Tang poetry from all aspects of culture, including 10 works, such as Aesthetics of Tang Poetry (Li Hao Shaanxi People's Education Publishing House1992); During this period, there also appeared a number of works that discussed the literature of the Tang Dynasty from the perspective of literary evolution or literary history, such as Ge's The Evolution of Han and Tang Literature (Peking University Press 1990). It is worth mentioning that many literary chronicles have been compiled in this issue, among which The Chronicle of Literature of Tang and Five Dynasties written by Fu Xuancong, Tao Min, Li Yifei, Jia Jinhua and Wu Zaiqing is the most representative. This book is of pioneering significance, putting the literary activities in the Tang Dynasty in a broad historical and event background, facilitating people to "know people and discuss the world" and having important reference value for the study of Tang Dynasty literature.

In the 1990s, great achievements were made in the collation of ancient documents in the Tang Dynasty, and a number of informative collation achievements appeared, such as Li Bai's Data Collection (Zhonghua Book Company 1994) edited by Pei Fei and Liu (the Ministry of Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties), which brought together a large number of comments, textual research, descriptions and evaluations on Li Bai's life story, which provided convenience for Li Bai's research. Comments on Li Bai's Complete Works (Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House 1997) edited by Zhan Ying is a master of Li Bai's research, which sets a good example for collating other collections of Tang literature in the new century. During this period, a number of Tang anthologies were collated, with a total of more than 65,438+00, such as Notes on Luwen Collection (Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House Zhu Shangshu Note 1994) and Notes on Wang (Chen Tiemin People's Literature Publishing House 1997). Most of the collations of these anthologies are explanatory in nature, so as to study and understand the Tang Dynasty.

In the 1990s, there were not many achievements in literature research in the Tang Dynasty. Han Lizhou made great efforts in prose, and published two books, A Preliminary Textual Research on Tang Literature (Han Lizhou Shaanxi People's Publishing House 1992) and An Examination of Thousands of Writers in the New Tang Dynasty (Han Lizhou Jiangxi People's Publishing House 1995). It is worth mentioning that Gao Haifu, a professor at Shaanxi Normal University, edited Notes of Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties (Sanqin Publishing House 1998). The authors of this book are mostly experts in Tang Dynasty literature research, such as Yan Qi, Li Hao and Yang Encheng. Therefore, the Collection of Notes is of high quality, which can be used as a useful reference to interpret the articles of eight great writers in Tang and Song Dynasties. Parallel Prose in Tang Dynasty mainly includes Yu Jingxiang's Parallel Prose History of Tang and Song Dynasties (Liaoning People's Publishing House 199 1) and Yu Jidong's A Brief History of Han and Tang Dynasties (Oriental Publishing Center 1999), which respectively talk about the development of parallel prose and prose in Tang Dynasty.

In the 1990s, novels of the Tang Dynasty were edited by Wang Rutao (Shandong Literature and Art Publishing House 1993) and later published by Li (Shaanxi People's Publishing House 1998), with good quality. These two books provide convenient materials for the study of novels in the Tang Dynasty. Li Jianguo's Narration of Tales of Mysteries in Tang and Five Dynasties (Part One and Part Two) (Nankai University Press 1993) makes a detailed textual research on more than 200 kinds of legends of mysteries in Tang and Five Dynasties, and comments on each kind of works. This book "is not only a history of novels in the form of bibliography, but also a history of dating criticism of hundred schools of thought's novels" [8], which is an important reference book for novelists in the Tang and Five Dynasties. Cheng Yizhong's History of Novels in the Tang Dynasty (Culture and Art Publishing House 1990) and Zhou Xunchu's Notes on Novels in the Tang Dynasty (Jiangsu Ancient Books Publishing House 1996) are famous works for studying novels in the Tang Dynasty. Guo Cheng's research on the evolution of novels in the Tang Dynasty "avoided the topics discussed by predecessors, and studied from the evolution of tang legends's works in later generations, which also opened a new world, made up for the shortcomings and filled a gap." [9]