The Personality Model and Natural Worship of the Poet in Mid-Tang Dynasty

The Poets in Mid-Tang Dynasty standardized personality design by self-noblizing code of conduct. It is truly a man-centered and comfort-Oriented life style. Drawing on the style of the celebrity. Xiao-shan in Wei-ji Dynasty, they overcame the prejudice against have and have-not, dispelled the radical cynism, protected the heart and soul from disturbance and hurt, thus transitted from character worship to natural worship, forming a Mid-Tang mode which is similar in form but different in matter in comparison with the Wei-ji mode. Although both are in abandonment form, the most essential difference lies in the fact that where there is self-confidence with Mid-Tang poets there is a sense of inferiority with Wei-ji peers. This passion of life released out of a specific cultural ecology, manifests an awakening in a true sense, forms a new life value orientation. Thus the worldly self mood gives way to the noble self mode, and the new celebrity personality mood is further sublimated into a landscape mode.