Tang Poetry& the World
唐诗与世界
Course Syllabus 课程章节
1Tang poetry was the peak of Chinese poetry. The poems are enchanting, just like fairies or Muse. Ever since their appearance in the Tang Dynasty, the poems have exerted great influence on the rest of the world. In the cultural circle of Southeast Asia, Japanese aristocrats and scholars drew upon Japanese ambassadors to China to realize aesthetic synchronization with the Tang empire and developed haiku with distinct Japanese characteristics; also on the basis of Tang poetry, the Vietnamese created double-seven style and six-eight style ancient poems, which had distinctive national features. In modern times, with the deepening of globalization, Tang poetry started to be disseminated in the occidental world as well. Thus, a question arises: For the world beyond China, who was considered to be the best poet in the Tang Dynasty? What poems had international flavor? Come on, let’s read and judge.