Imperial Culture And Literary Activity Of Zhenguan Period & Study And Criticism On Literary Thoughts

After the general study on the literature and literary reviews of the early Tang Dynasty, the basic opinion of this essay is that the step of the poem had been taking slowly but not still at the century of the early Tang dynasty. The poetic styles and setups established at the Zhenguan Period as the beginning of the Tang Dynasty founded by Emperor Li Yuan of the Li Family regulate the developing direction of poem for the periods coming after, though the elating evolution of poem had not appeared. During this period, the poem-writing activities taken by Taizong and the royal poets main part of which are his courtiers and the establishment of the literary theories undoubtedly had the decisive effects on the formation of the literary setups at the early Tang Dynasty. What I have done with my limited knowledge is to study and explicate the literary activity and thoughts of the monarch and his courtiers during the Zhenguan Period as few article on these issues is known in the educational circles. This essay is divided into three chapters.Chapter I is on the elementary survey on the scholar system of the royal school during Taizong Period.Taking the general view on the period during which Taizong was the emperor, he established the Literature Academy, Chongxian Academy, before which was Hongwen Academy by Gaozu, Emperor Li Yuan, and widely enrolled the scholars. The scholars of the Royal School influenced greatly on the politics, culture and academy of the early Tang Dynasty. Especially, the thoughts and practices of literature and art had not only created the general mood and basic outlook of the poem field, but their significance had cover long after including the whole Tang Dynasty.This chapter has three parts, they are on the summary on the source of the scholar system, the realistic political intentions of establishing the Literature Academy and the Hongwen Academy at early Tang Dynasty and the literary activity and its importance of the scholars in the Literature Academy and the Hongwen Academy.Chapter II is on the Taizong's literary proposals and the works & his influence on the poems of the early Tang Dynasty.As a founder, pioneer and leader of a dynasty, Taizong was fully aware of the extreme importance of the moral standards and the long-term political stability whichthe academic activities for Classics and the literature could have. At the same time, he loved the aesthetic characteristics of the poems very much and had relating explications on them because of his representative status as a poet of his own during the period of the early Tang Dynasty. He had the double identities of both statesman and poet, which was the reason that his poems and theories had the profound influence throughout the Tang Dynasty. This chapter is divided into two parts and they are on Taizong as a statesman and his literary views and Taizong as a poet and his literary views and the general survey. Chapter III is the study on chronicles of Taizong and his royal scholars. The analyses and reviews on the literary activity and theories are based on the history from the beginning to the end and regarded with the historical perspective. So the study and the ascertainment on chronicles of Taizong and his royal scholars are absolutely the necessary contents of this essay and they are written at the final chapter.