Twenty Lectures on Tang Poetry

Author: Zhang Aihua
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: The Tang poetry represents the pinnacle of poetry and the realm of artistic freedom. A dynasty filled with divine and human aspirations, a golden age in Chinese history! Some sentences that allow us to see our souls, names like the stars of a summer night, in the imagination of later generations, what a colorful life it must have been to live in that era! Everyone was full of vigor, striving upwards, each with ideals and pursuits. People worked freely and enjoyed life freely. They could till the fields, read and become officials, engage in business across the seas, or retreat into the mountains to live in seclusion, or travel all year round to admire the beauty of mountains and rivers. They could even indulge in wine to enjoy the summer, reveling in fleeting pleasures. All our desires find expression in this era, making us even more yearning for it, because the people of this time lived a life of ease and joy. Such an era has permanently passed away, an era so beautiful, tolerant, and majestic that it seems it will never happen again. Only through the poetry we read can we experience the freedom of that era.