The Research On Shao Fu Poetry In The Tang Dynasty

Shao Fu is some kind of government official who works at the county level of ancient times in our history, that is to keep the security of society, to arrest the criminals, take charge of the case and schedule sacrifice and all that. Shao Fu as government post goes though the Spring and Autumn period, Qin and Han, Jin and Southern-Northern Dynasties, Tang, Song, Liao Jin and Yuan Dynasties,and changes its functions in different times. The poetry of Shao Fu in the Tang Dynasty refers to the poems written by the poets who serving on the Shao Fu in the Tang Dynasty, and the poems that noticing and chanting Shao Fu poets. According to the statistics, the number of Shao Fu’s poems in the Tang Dynasty is four hundred and ninety-one. They mainly include two categories, they are the poems written by the poets who serving on the Shao Fu in the Tang Dynasty, and the poems that noticing and chanting Shao Fu poets. They are divided into four stages of the Early Tang, Sheng Tang, Mid-Tang, Late Tang. As far as concerned to the creating motivation, most of these poets would like to express their ambition and feeling by means of such poems. Shao Fu poetry ranges over diversified contents and various themes, which mainly involves poems of roam thinking, nostalgia of the past, composing verses, and poems for painting, parting with friends, lyrics of scenery and historic spots, spontaneous improvisation, concerning.ordinary people, traveling poems, etc. These themes inhabit many emotional qualities, most of them contain political frustration, the abjection of serving the country nowhere, the pain of separation, the contradiction of career disappointments and wanting to live in a hermitage, the emotional qualities of the encouragement in the sadness, and so on.This paper discusses the distinctive language features of Shao Fu poetry in using the expressions of the clothing, animals, plants, natural phenomena, seasons and festivals, specific locations, specific figures, and so on, as well, this paper discusses typical and unique types of the imagery which are Xian Wei imagery and Kirin imagery, too, as concerned of the means of artistic expression, using massive allusion, metaphor, metonymy, and their fixed mode of creation, which are accord with Shao Fu poetry, and suitable for politics in their historical environment. Bai Juyi is the poet in Mid-Tang who composed most such poems as "Everlasting Regret","Observe Reaping", etc. The experience served-as Shao Fu in Zhou Zhi country left a profound impact on his future in literature creation and his official career, and set the seal in the history of literature.