What is the manifestation of the prosperity of literature and art in Tang Dynasty?

Poetry in the Tang Dynasty was unprecedented and reached the peak of China's classical poetry. Tang poetry has a wide range of themes, schools, styles, popular authors and wide spread, which is beyond the reach of predecessors and can only be imitated by future generations.

Regardless of political life, singing history, funeral march in the Deep Palace, frontier bonfires, pastoral landscapes, love songs, vagrancy, chess, calligraphy and painting, etc. , can be described and sung in poetry, and excellent works have appeared.

The representative novels of the Tang Dynasty are short stories that pursue "Tang legend" and "strangeness". Outstanding representative works include Biography of Yuan Zhen, Biography of Li Wa by Bai Xingjian, Biography of Song of Eternal Sorrow by Chen Hong, Biography of Liu Yi by Li and Biography of Huo Xiaoyu. The birth of "legendary" literature in the Tang Dynasty marked the beginning of the maturity of novels.

The word "drama" came into being in the Tang Dynasty. Drama in the Tang Dynasty is mainly "all-around drama, song and dance drama, military drama and puppet show". Influenced by western drama, Tang drama absorbed the nutrition of ancient Indian Brahma drama, formed Tang drama, and spread to Korean Peninsula and ancient Japan.

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Reasons for prosperity

1. There were few ideological imprisonments and literary inquisitions in the Tang Dynasty, which created an ideological environment for the prosperity and development of literature. The Tang government used Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and all kinds of ideas were inclusive.

2. The establishment of schools at all levels, the imperial examination system for poets, and the emperor's love and admiration for literature all made the literature of the Tang Dynasty flourish unprecedentedly.

3. During the Tang Dynasty, China people were open-minded, not complacent, and were good at absorbing the excellent cultures of various nationalities and countries. Only when the art of music and dance in the western regions, Buddhism in ancient India, Brahma drama, literature in ancient Japan and Korea and the Tang Dynasty infiltrated and merged with each other, could there be bold and rich literature in the Tang Dynasty.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Tang Dynasty Literature