The New Varieties On The Art Of History Commenting Poets Writen By The Tang Dynasty

History commenting poem is an important part of Chinese classical poem subjects. The systematic research on it began in the late 1940s and thrived after 1980. Among the existed research treatises, the number of the disquisition on history commenting poem in Tang dynasty is the largest, and the treatises mainly focus on the late Tang. Paying their attention on a few famous history commenting poets, few scholars shot their eyes to the poem creation of the whole Tang Dynasty, let alone researching all the history commenting poems from era before Qin Dynasty to Tang as a whole. This disquisition will pay full attention to all the history commenting poems before Tang dynasty and systematically research the history commenting poems in Tang dynasty on the precondition of grasping the research history in 20th century. About 70,000 characters in all, the disquisition mainly discusses the questions in the four following aspects:First, it carefully differentiates the relations between history commenting, historic site meditating, and emotion expressing poems. The history commenting poem is defined as a kind of individual feeling expressing poem whose theme is the historic fact. And inspired by the history information, the poets created them. Historic site meditating poem is a kind of history commenting poem in a special style. As to the emotion-expressing poem, it's a type of poems different from history commenting poem.Second, the history commenting poems before Tang dynasty can be divided into three developing stages. The era before Qin is the germinating stage, whose contribution is to establish the two important themes, i.e. lyricism and verity analyses. However, there is no self-conscious history commenting poem in the poems handed down from ancient time. The period between Han and Wei dynasty is the self-conscious stage of the history commenting poem, whose three basic styles, narrating and eulogizing style, verity analyzing style and lyric style were basically shaped. But the relation between history narration and will telling are not perfectly disposed yet. The Two Jins, South and North dynasty is the developing stage whose main achievement is naturally melting the sentiment of life into history flashback. The art expressive force is enhanced and the disadvantage is the limit of the connotation and a bit narrowness of the view.Third, the history commenting poem in Tang dynasty didn't lyricize with the center of character and events. It plaints the historical rise and fall with the reforming historic events as the medium. Influenced by the immortalizing pursuit of the royal family and the society, the history commenting poets in Tang dynasty showed great interest to the legend world. The care of real-life politics and the unique understand of the history are recorded in the way of history commenting by the subtle poets. All of these embody the thesis change of history commenting poem in Tang dynasty.Finally, as to the art, not only can the poets in Tang dynasty habitually revive history, lyricize their sentiments with the freely changing space-time frame, but also can they melt nature and history, retrospect to the past dynasties and imply their feeling in the description of nature. They can use Bixing technique in the poems more deeply and connotatively than the yore. Most of their implications are the social and historic great events and seldom of them are the private interests. They are experts on describing, word decorating, and showing the broad adaptation art in simplicity. The art expressive force of history commenting poem in Tang dynasty is enhanced effectively.