Hi everyone welcome back Lhasla Montgomery here the China history podcast episode

two two three part six of our set course meal intro to the history of poetry and the Tang Dynasty. Even without getting into any of the minutia of poetry

appreciation and poem styles, imagery and composition.

Here we are six episodes into this overview of tongue poetry and we only just finished the Rinaldo

and messy of the era and well as with European football

where Tong poetry is concerned there's a lot more to it than Lippai and Dufu.

In Tong poetry, or even all of Chinese poetry, some might say,

we know Li Bai and Du Fu enjoy such as special status. It seems that all the other beloved poets end up looking

like also rans compared to them. But everyone who is really familiar with

Chinese poetry, they don't fall for any of that stuff. They know every age produced its own marvels and wonders.

And who's to say this one by Suu Shur or Gauchi is any better or worse than that one composed by Dufu.

I thought from here on out why don't we run through some of the other famous names from tongue poetry Andetry, and if you're not familiar with these poets yet,

now's your chance. Where Tung Poetry is concerned, when asked, who were the top three?

Pretty much, Wang Wei, always rounds out that list.

Some might say, Meng Hal Ran or Baikyu Yi, but Li Bi-Fi, Du Fu, and Wang Wei, that was almost always the three names you hear.

They were the revered Trinity of high tongue poetry.

Li Bi had a Taoist bent to his character.

Du Fu was the Confucianist, and Wang Wei, he channeled Chan Buddhism in his work, his lifelong devotion to Buddhism,

had quite an impact on not just his life, but his poems and paintings as well.

Up until the Wu-Zung Emperor crashed the party in 845,

Buddhism flourished in the Tang like never before and was reflected in many aspects of Chinese culture.

That Wang Wei was so devout and all.

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