Mount Song Writing In Tang Poetry

Mount Song is a famous mountain adjacent to Luoyang,the eastern capital of The Tang Dynasty.Mount Song changed from a simple geographical coordinate into a literary image with rich meaning through the writing of Tang people.Through the analysis and discussion of Mount Song poems in Tang Dynasty,we can not only appreciate the beautiful scenery and profound cultural heritage of Mount Song,but also understand the emotions of Tang people in Mount Song,and get a glimpse of their spiritual world.This paper consists of four chapters.The first chapter firstly sorts out Mount Song poems before Tang Dynasty and roughly clarifies the formation process of Mount Song image before Tang Dynasty.In general,the Mount Song poems before Tang Dynasty are relatively simple,mainly including the Mount Song,the use of Mount Song-related allusions and the naming of Mount Song Mount Hua as the three aspects,which made a beneficial attempt and necessary preparation for the prosperity of Mount Song poems in Tang Dynasty.There are 672 songs of Mount Song in Tang Dynasty,which can be divided into four categories according to the content,such as poem for visiting on the mount,poem for giving a reply,poem for sending off at a distance and poem for leisurely living in the mountain.These four kinds of poems are rich in content,describing the sorrow,joy,sadness and joy of the literati of Tang Dynasty and reproducing the spiritual world of Tang people.Poets in Tang Dynasty wrote songs about Mount Song from three aspects: poetic representation of Mount Song’s scenery,real writing of life experience and multiplication and transformation of allusion connotation,which not only explored the poetic beauty of Mount Song,but also enriched the connotation of Mount Song image in poems.Chapter two analyzes the relationship between Mount Song poetry and politics in Tang Dynasty.From The Taizong Dynasty to the Empress Wu Dynasty,Mount Song ’s political status gradually increased.Out of the need to prove the legitimacy of the regime and consolidate the rule,the Empress Wu,who dared to be the first,finally chose Mount Song for meditation,considering the influence of finance,mountain worship and other issues.During her reign,the Empress Wu led her courtiers to Mount Song for many times,and the scholars around her left a lot of Mount Song poems.Shi Cong’s poems,as an outstanding representative among them,sing praises of the sacred virtues but are not appealingly elegant,and are luxuriant but not luxuriant.The landscape description and religious writing in his poems show the new style of the poems in the Wu Zhou DynastyChapter three discusses the influence and mutual achievement of Mount Song poetry and the culture of Mount Song in Tang Dynasty from three aspects of Buddhism culture,Taoism culture and recluse culture.In the aspect of Buddhist culture,poets wrote about the temple and monks in Mount Song,which reflected the Buddhist culture of Mount Song as well as the Zen interest.In the aspect of Taoist culture,poets wrote about the palace and Taoist figures in Mount Song,and used Taoist allusions related to Mount Song,so the poems were romantic.In terms of recluse culture,poets have created rich images of hermits who are close to real life in their poems,using allusions to seclusion in a new way of expression.Mount Song poetry and the culture of Mount Song form a positive interaction,Mount Song profound cultural deposits make poetry rich,poetry adds new content to the culture of Mount Song.The fourth chapter introduces the concept of " topophilia" and analyzes the "song shao complex" of the literati in Tang Dynasty.Tang dynasty poets will be sincere and full of emotions into the poem,they will not only express the feelings of carefree and happy,sleeping cloud lying stone,but also write when mourning for the deceased friends of the pain,the signal fire from the sad,which also constitute the emotional core of "song shao complex".At the same time,the "song shao complex" of Tang people mainly has three manifestations: aesthetic appreciation,body perception and spiritual attachment.In the eyes of the Tang people,Mount Song is no longer a simple geographical or cultural landscape,but a cultural and symbolic symbol full of their real feelings.