Leisure—The Deepening of Sadness

The theme of poetry about seeing off someone going to his post dominates a great proportion of all poems in Tang Dynasty. In the prime of Tang Dynasty, this sort of poems seldom showed sadness which resulted from intimate's parting, while in the late Tang Dynasty, the strong sadness was often reflected in poems, and this kind of tragic consciousness of sadness went further and turned into the overflow of leisure mood in poems. This phenomenon was not haphazard but the inevitable result of the acceptance of Buddhism and Daoism by most of the scholars in the late Tang Dynasty.