Theme Of Opuses About Li Longji And Yang Yuhuan In Tang Dynasty

In the Tang Dynasty, the story of Emperor Li Longji and the imperial concubine Yang Yuhuan is a household name. Emperor Xuanzong was wise in earlier stage, but fatuous in the later stage; while the Concubine Yang was well fortunately, with all the glory for the whole family at first, still could not escape the disaster of Mawei mutiny in the end. With the historical interpretation and processing of the literati, Li-Yang story has become one of the main materials for literary creation in the Tang Dynasty. there has been a large number of poems and novels around their lives and affection.The writers of Li Yang theme is widespread, as well as the diverse works on the subject matter. Most of the works show different theme tendencies on critique, sympathy, reminiscing about reflection, reverse the verdict. There are three main reasons for these differences. Firstly, the reason of the times, different mood of the times and historical background in the Tang Dynasty, lead to literati’s different psychological feelings, thus forming the differences in understanding and thoughts. Secondly, different literary forms of poetry and fiction present different themes even on the same subject matter works. Poetry used to be more reserved while fiction expresses its feelings with narrative.Thirdly, differences in personal temperament, endowments, personal experience, as well as the standpoint of writers, cause the formation of different themes. Such as Du Fu is a person "in Confucianism, guard officer". Standing in the position to maintain the existing regime, he created the "Northward", which shows deep into account of the feelings of the future for the country. Bai Juyi is the kind of person "deeper than love". The tragic love experience in his youth makes "Everlasting Regret" written euphemism affectionate, full of pathos.