Literature in the Heyday of the Tang Dynasty

The period from the reign of Emperor Xuanzong under the title of Kaiyuan to the beginning of the reign of Emperor Daizong under the title of Dali (713 A.D.–766 A.D.) was the so-called heyday of the Tang Dynasty. During this period, the Tang Dynasty enjoyed political stability and social prosperity. It was recognized by later generations as a prosperous age. It was also a golden age for poetry creation. Yan Yu, a poetry theorist in the Song Dynasty, said, “The poems in the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty are different from each other in terms of styles and features rather than workmanship”. Lin Geng, a contemporary Tang poetry expert, summarized the aesthetic style and spiritual temperament of the poems in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty as “the style of the heyday of the Tang Dynasty”.