The Study Of Poetry Singing The Praises Of The Emperor

The poem intends to sing the praises of the Emperor, praising the virtue and the time ofnational peace and order. According to the statistics, the number of the poem singing thepraises of the Emperor in the late Tang Dynasty (766BC-ad907years) was about900.Although political unrest and national recession had happened in the late Tang Dynasty,some renovation and reform of the emperor like De zong or Xuanzong had created peaceyears, which provided the material basis for the poet. People’s political andideological culture of this time was also controlled by the emperor, they often used everymeans to fawn on in front of the Emperor influenced by autocratic monarchy and Confucianthought. What’s more, the praise atmosphere and the court culture of abundance alsopromoted the generation of the poem singing the praises of the Emperor in the late TangDynasty.In a word, because of the complex political background and the complexity of poetry,the creative mind of the poem was the same complex, some of them are true praise, but theothers are false display of affection, we need concrete analysis according to the relevantcontexts.From the type of the poet, the poem was created by the emperors themselves,court officials, common people and so on, it covered male poets and female poets, the poempraised in front of the Emperor or not, In prosperity or not. Complicated and confused, butdistinctive. From the content point of view, some of them praised the peace and order or theemperor ability, some of them sang beautiful rivers and mountains or national orcultural prosperity. From the type of poems, it included the ancient poem, quatrain andverse.These poem contain many symbolic connotation like the Emperor and auspicious signs,giving them some typical images, it’s creative technique was various, which was full ofartistic characteristics.