Cao Tang Poetry

Cao Tang is the late Tang a poet who is well-known by the poetry about immortals, at present saves the poem approximately 170, approximately some 130 is belong to immortals work immortal. Such result, is not only the Tang Dynasty poet writes poetry about immortals quantity most one, and has since also been the Six Dynasties in the poetry about immortals history writing champion. His poetry about immortals became famous at that time, affected in the later generation. After from ancient times till now, near hundred year research, the research of Cao Tang's poetry about immortals has obtained the great achievement particularly, starts to turn toward a broader direction to develop, these research mainly focus on his poetry about immortals narrative characteristic, the content characteristic, the image characteristic and it with deity fable relations and so on, this should say that is encouraging achievement which Cao Tang's poetry about immortals research institute obtains.Although people carry on to study Cao Tang's poetry about immortals more and thoroughly, because of Cao Tang's poem doesn't show in ancient literature in China and his poetry about immortals difficult to understand and mysterious and visionary, his righteousness is difficult to clear, so his poetry about immortals should also make further more meticulous fashionable.In fact, from the Cao Tang's poetry about immortals, we should also see his big poetry about immortals is also the model work which recounts narrative group poem, in China ancient times in narrative poem not too developed situation, his these poetries should have the quite important value; Its small poetry about immortals is the fairyland symbol group poem classics, has stayed the poet in the illusory small poetry about immortals to the patriarchal society oppression and the despotic revolt and to free equal life yearning. Moreover, had nearly still not involved in the former research to Cao Tang's outside poetry about other theme poetry, actually, when researcher researches Cao Tang's good year and making friends are based on Cao Tang's chants the bosom poem, to see somebody off the poem and so on to infer, this explains that these poetries to the more comprehensive understanding poet, understand his abstruse mysterious poetry about immortals is valuable, also has the very big significance. Also, if inspects from the poetics function view's angle, other theme's poetry of Cao Tang also has the important value, we may see declines the late Tang time in Confucianism, the Confucian thoughts has the deep Taoism thought poet's major impact on one.The present paper is by Cao Tang's poetry about immortals research primarily, gives dual attention to his other themes the poetry, attempts to make a quite comprehensive system's inspection to Cao Tang and his poetry. The present paper is divided six chapters, from the research which spreads to Cao Tang's biography activity and the poetry anthology obtains, in Cao Tang locates the late Tang society's cultural big background down explains his poetry (particularly poetry about immortals) and the imperial civil service examination, the religion, the love and marriage thought that as well as the late Tang Five Dynasties scholars cultural cast of mind relations; (Including its poetry about immortals's origin) divides into the narrative myth group poem to his poetry about immortals song's ideological content the model—big poetry about immortals and the symbolic fairyland group poem classics—small poetry about immortals and so on two parts introduced separately. His poetry artistic achievement mainly to its structure art—Makes the scenery technique, the space and time construction and language art—The language style, the verb use and so on two big characteristics have made a more comprehensive examination, and Cao Tang's poetry about immortals and he before the main poet's poetry about immortals has made the relativity analysis; His other theme's poetry, did from the classical poetry function view's angle introduced that and has analyzed his other theme poetry to his poetry about immortals influence; Last chapter accepts the situation to Cao Tang's poetry in all previous dynasties, (later generation poetry carries on illustration from the note to Cao Tang), to elect (Cao Tang's poem who in all previous dynasties anthology is selected the Tang poetry), to comment (poems and so on later generation notes on poets and poetry to comment a kind of work to Cao Tang's poetry to discuss and introduce), imitates (later generation poets to imitate Cao Tang's poetry about immortals) and edits (later generation to Cao Tang's poetry reorganization to compile) and so on five aspects to make a more comprehensive discussion, hoped that can poetry research have a benefit to present's research of Cao Tang's poetry.