Body Of Tang Poetry Narrative

"Body"is always in a flowing gesture in history, and having different connotations in different contemporary with the historical evolution. Through analyzing the origin and development of body consciousness, we can understand the body concept in Chinese culture and body development in Chinese literature and even to further grasp the body consciousness of the scholar in the middle Tang. Because when body consciousness develop to the middle Tang, it has the traditional inheritance, at the same time it contains the spirit of the time of the middle Tang, which forming the particular"body narrative"in the middle Tang poetry.Although Chinese poetry are more"feeling in funeral and joyful",but actually are frequently"expressing for the matter".The middle Tang background of aristocrat and commoners cultural transformation pushes society to raise the secularized aesthetic trend, while the scholar in middle Tang is unavoidable to influence on this secularized air and indulges in luxurious enjoyment. They, pursuit of sensorial stimulation, exquisitely describe the process of amusement with prostitute in narrative style, which comes out much gorgeous poetry, those poetry centers on amusement life and female appearance and posture. Besides, the declining period feels, irreversible social declining tendency, misfortuned personal official career and exhausted life make them take more attention to their own bitter and pain. They clearly show those real experiences in their works, especially the physiological pain, brought by growing old. So there also are some works describing ugly body image, such as grey hair, falling tooth, dim sight and sick bone.Through the further analysis of the two kinds of body poetry in middle Tang, not only we pry into the body consciousness mostly exists in political appeal, sign with life emotion, psychological compensation and so on, but also find the artistic value of body poetry, which finds expression in aesthetic features of"facial features perception"and"the ugly as beautiful".Body narration in middle Tang poetry boosts the thriving secular literature, and changes traditional"gentle and perfect"body aesthetic into a new one of"the ugly as beautiful", which greatly enriches the connotation of body aesthetic. Besides, the body narration in middle Tang results in the transfer of literature idea, that is, secular spirit turns to amuse oneself, nature connotation to"literary excellence is achieved only after many frustrations"and high praise to torture towards the opinion of poetry education, which has a very important influence on history of literature.