The Chinese poetry is an outstanding representative of the Chinese culture, it can be traced back to the ancient period of without the writing. The Chinese poetry is the spiritual wealth which Chinese people create in the history of thousands of years. As ideology culture, in different historical period, the Chinese poetry is the political and economic reflection at that time. The Chinese poetry has clear-cut nation characteristic, have unique nation tradition, have own unique development course.
The Chinese poetry has a long history, have unique tradition, is Chinese valuable culture heritage, relate with people’s culture life.
Golden age of Chinese poetry is the Tang Dynasty. There are a lot of poets in the Tang Dynasty. Extant their poetry are more than 48,900. The subject matter of Tang poetry is very extensive. Some reflect the class state of the society and class contradiction at that time, reveal the darkness of the feudal society; some extol the just war, express the patriotic thought; some describe the beautiful scenery; some describe personal aspiration and experience; some express the love; some tell the friend’s friendship; some tell joys and sorrows of life, etc.. In a word from natural phenomenon, politics, work, life, social custom, to the personal feeling, these can not escape from poet’s sharp sight, become subject matter of their writing.
Chinese poetry, like Chinese wine culture and Chinese tea culture, everybody can touch, everybody can drink and taste, everybody can study. Everybody can read poetry, but everybody needn’t become a poet. The poetry is only a kind of culture.
