A Brief Discussion On The Image Of Tang Poetry

"Image", or Yixiang in Chinese, is a core concept of Chinese traditional aesthetics. From the view of Chinese traditional aesthetics, the most elementary rule of image is "the blending of subjective feeling and objective setting", while the basic structure of the aesthetic image is the unity between ideas and images with scene and emotion. With its splendid and colorful image, Tang Poetry is the essence of Chinese traditional culture. From the Tang Poetry image, people can feel poets’rich thoughts and feelings as well as the social reality. Based on the thought and culture of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, this article emphasizes the prosperity of the poetry in Tang Dynasty, three kinds of culturally representative of aesthetic image style and the revelation of Tang Poetry. The full text mainly has three parts.The first part mainly describes the rising of poetry in the Tang Dynasty and its influence from the era culture. Based on the introduction of the prosperity of the poetry in the Tang dynasty, this part mainly studies the reason in the aspects of art, mind, and culture. Firstly, the article explores how the Three Religions’culture influence the poets’ minds, emotions and the views and attitudes they see worlds such as the ideological influences from personality thought, spiritual realm and method of self-cultivation; Secondly, this part studies the influences come from the poets’presentation or the way they absorb images and describe scenes when they are expressing emotions; Thirdly, in the scene of aesthetic acceptance, the Three Religions’ culture also impacts people’s ability of "encoding" image and the tendency of the way how they encode. And the same time, the status of "encoding" for this kind of culture will influence poets’ creation; moreover, the humanization, humanism and human tendency of poetic image will also be affected.The second part mainly describes the characteristics of poetic image in the Tang Dynasty. Influenced by Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, Tang poetry shows a pluralistic feature in the aspects of expressing emotions and describing scenes. It approximately can be divided into Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism these three fundamental features and three corresponding basic patterns. The first is Confucian pattern. The outstanding feature of this kind is "melancholy". "Melancholy" embodies the Confucian thought of love and hardship which represented by Du Fu’s poems; the second is Taoist pattern. Represented by Li Bai’s poetries, this pattern’s most prominent feature is "Elegance" which embodies the thought connotation of Taoist culture such as thoughts of obeying the law of nature and Peripateticism. The third is Buddhist pattern. Being this pattern’s prominent feature, "Ethereality" reflects the connotation of Buddhist culture, and the representational poems come from Wang Wei.The third part studies the revelation of image of Tang poetry. Both the image and the creative experience of Tang poetry exert positive effects on the practices in the Chinese poetic creation and development of the poetic theory. Meanwhile, the poetry in the Tang Dynasty has positive implications to the deep understand of aesthetic theory and the practice of artistic creation even in real life.