Study On The Poems About Imperial Examinations Of Tang Dynasty

Appearance of the poems about Imperial Examinations was an important phenomenon in literature of Tang Dynasty. It is not only has a large quantity of works and poets, but also exhibited different aspects by a special way, such as the politics system, the view of the literary world, the spirit of the intelligentsia, and social custom. These not only won a field for itself in the sanctity temple of Tang Dynasty's poems , but also offered a special visual angle in the study of Tang Dynasty. For the windage of conception,the poems about Imperial Examinations were considered the draff of Tang Dynasty's poems for a long time, one neglected point was shaped in the field of the study on Tang Dynasty's poems.However, "the ancients has already died while the poem still exists"; "if people are here the verse will be spread forever" ,the fact of a large quantity of poems about Imperial Examinations still existing after a thousand years always calls us to re-know and re-comprehend . The paper is a try of systemic study in this field.Firstly, the paper gave a new concenption to the poems about Imperial Examinations based on All Poems of Tang Dynasdy and the survey in the harvest of before studies,and done The Index of The Poems About Imperial Examinations by research and analysis. In this paper, the poems about Imperial Examinations are discussed in a large background of Tang Dynasty's Imperial Examinations system and the development and evolution of Tang Dynasty's poems, so as to revert its real visage and post its value and meanings as an organic part of the Tang Dynasty's poems.The paper has three parts.The first part described the history of the poems about Imperial Examinations, and exhibited its basic view. The second part analysed the characteristic of the poems about Imperial Examinations' thoughts and skills, and studied its esthetics achievement furthermore. The third part choosed those famous poets as sample to understand the characteristic of the poems about Imperial Examinations' thoughts and skills more deeply.