Pattern of Fu Poetry in Han Dynasty and Its Effect upon Poetry in Tang Dynasty

Being flourishing in the literary community in the Han Dynasty,imitation,especially of fu poetry,brought forth many descriptive and rhetorical patterns,which contributed much to the development of Tang-Dynasty poetry.While descriptive pattern was mostly applied in such subject matters as music and hunting,rhetorical pattern was characteristic of metaphor and exaggeration.That poets in the Tang Dynasty followed the patterns of fu poetry of the Han Dynasty never means they did slavish imitation of words and sentences,but focused on composing techniques.The transition in literary pattern from Han-Dynasty fu poetry to Tang-Dynasty poetry is significant to the development of Tang-Dynasty poetry and the history of Chinese literature.