A study on Universal Values of Literati in Tang Dynasty – Take Idylls as an Example

Abstract

Tang Dynasty is an important era in China's history. It reached a high level of development both in productive forces and in humanity from the beginning of Tang Dynasty to An Lushan Rebellion, during which the universal values and literati in Tang Dynasty formed. Nowadays, various historical researches are focused on poetry and all kinds of literature in Tang Dynasty, probing into the level of productivity based on materials such as historical and cultural relics to further speculate the development of the humanity in Tang Dynasty. The author believes that, the poetry in Tang Dynasty, to a large degree, directly reflects the psychology of literati. This paper, from the perspective of the pastoral poetry of Tang Dynasty, probes into the universal values of literati in Tang Dynasty.