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On Taoist Mood in Poems of the Tang Dynasty

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The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of the development of Taoism and a period of its own upheaval changes. Its prime showed extreme prosperity and unprecedented momentum strong,which opened a new space for the blossom of Tang poetry and provided rich aesthetic imagery and artistic conception of Tang dynasty. With the harmonic and opposing among Confucianism,Buddhism,Taoism,along with the changes of the Tang Dynasty history, to reflect the political reality was out of the topic,so many literati were in the pursuit of wonderland devoid of social realities and the prevalence of seclusion was on rampant,the situation of which not only made the contents and forms of the poetry richer and more colorful,but also made the Taoism occupy a more important position in the whole social life and the cultural development and had a more significant impact on the literati.

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The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of the development of Taoism and a period of its own upheaval changes. Its prime showed extreme prosperity and unprecedented momentum strong,which opened a new space for the blossom of Tang poetry and provided rich aesthetic imagery and artistic conception of Tang dynasty. With the harmonic and opposing among Confucianism,Buddhism,Taoism,along with the changes of the Tang Dynasty history, to reflect the political reality was out of the topic,so many literati were in the pursuit of wonderland devoid of social realities and the prevalence of seclusion was on rampant,the situation of which not only made the contents and forms of the poetry richer and more colorful,but also made the Taoism occupy a more important position in the whole social life and the cultural development and had a more significant impact on the literati.

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The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of the development of Taoism and a period of its own upheaval changes. Its prime showed extreme prosperity and unprecedented momentum strong,which opened a new space for the blossom of Tang poetry and provided rich aesthetic imagery and artistic conception of Tang dynasty. With the harmonic and opposing among Confucianism,Buddhism,Taoism,along with the changes of the Tang Dynasty history, to reflect the political reality was out of the topic,so many literati were in the pursuit of wonderland devoid of social realities and the prevalence of seclusion was on rampant,the situation of which not only made the contents and forms of the poetry richer and more colorful,but also made the Taoism occupy a more important position in the whole social life and the cultural development and had a more significant impact on the literati.

Key concepts: Taoism, Poetry, Prosperity, Classical Chinese poetry, Buddhism, Politics, Literature, Seclusion

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