Journal of Asian Restudy 2021 Fall

of poem writing rules was established and made this period
come out with a great number of shiny stars in the poetry
field. It seemed that those brilliant poets had created a
new constellation of stars under the cultural sky, and made
this dynasty shined with different light and unique beauty.
When poem first appeared, in both eastern culture and
western culture, it functioned like songs that people can
sing and chant with repeated verses, due to its rhymed and
tonal feature and simple phrase pattern, a suitable style
for singing. After China was united in Qin dynasty, the
prose and essays which are good for illustrating reasons
and explaining things become the emphasized writing style
and shied the other literature styles, which trend
continued until end of Han dynasty, before the poem
gradually started to become popular.
Why would poem blossom at its most lustful and charming in
Tang dynasty, and suddenly give out the most splendid light
to the world? Qin dynasty, as the first Chinese empire of
the feudal society, was built on the teaching of Legalist
School which stressed the importance of laws and
represented the new rising landlord classes, however, the
very rigid law in favor of the ruling classes and cruel
regime led to its ruin in a short period of 15 years. When
it came to Han dynasty, they changed the national teaching
to School of Confucianism after they had strengthened the
new regime. At the end of West Han dynasty, the Buddhism
started to spread to China from India, and it was slowly
accepted by more and more people. When it gets to Jin as
well as Southern and Northern states period, the
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