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Shishu
- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- Copyright 2009 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1673-7318
- eISSN
- 1673-7423
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11702-009-0018-5
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Some famous Tang Dynasty poems were once abridged by later generations. The earliest abridgements occurred in the Tang Dynasty because the music officials in charge of music intended to make the poems suitable for singing. However, the success of some abridgements was attributed to literary creation. Among the various abridgements of the famous Tang poems, the most successful instances formed a truncated verse by segmenting four lines from the original works. The author holds that this phenomenon in literary history indicated the pursuit of terseness, which was a popular feature of ancient Chinese poetic creation. Moreover, it also reflected the later poets’ criticism and amended the artistic criterion of the Tang poetry.
Journal
Frontiers of Literary Studies in China – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2009
Keywords: the Tang poetry; famous pieces; abridgement; truncated verse