天子腳下: 初唐詩人筆下的長安 = Under emperor's feet : Chang An as described by poets of early Tang dynasty.

The paper entitled "Under emperor’s feet: Chang An as Described by Poets of Early Tang Dynasty" will discuss the topic from three aspects. There are only very few early Tang poetry remained and they are mostly considered as banquet poetry. I will try to analyze them from several unprecedented angles and try to understand multiple implied meanings in the early Tang Poetry.

The first aspect is from the sense of urgency as the starting point. By observing how the founding members of the Early Tang Dynasty expressing their worries, especially during the transition to the great era, we can see their anxieties when dealing with the past and also the development at that point of time. It then found that, from the beginning of the Six Dynasties, Yang Xiong’s historical image kept emerging as the scholars’ spiritual model during unsuccessful times. His focusing on reading and writing successfully won the respect of the future generations, and is demonstrated in poems. In the past, we tend to view the relationship between scholars and Chang An towards chasing the fame and making contributions, and less focus on their critics towards Chang An in the process of transition.

In addition, I will discuss the poets’ writings as influenced by the public sceneries and architectural ideas. The third chapter discusses my most concentrated collection and significant place in Kunming pool, Le Youyuan, Qujiang as the studies subject, trying to figure out the relationship between memory and place. Kunming pool, a collection of poets to the myth of collective memory. Le Youyuan banquet song on the late Tang became nostalgic memories of prosperous Tang. The Qujiang, became poets touring place and was remembered by future generations.

Finally, I try to observe from the architectural perspective of the temples and palaces, and see the architectural thinking embedded in poets’ writings. Buildings after buildings are under the emperor’s foot and these buildings consist of palaces and temples. Poets described the buildings in their own chants, and describing the meticulous carving of the buildings. This vaguely revealed the collective imagination and sustenance towards the buildings. I will summarized the characteristics from the huge amounts of poems.

This dissertation attempts to find out some missing overlooked ideological character, about the relation between Tang’s poets and the Chang’an.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-172).

also in Chinese.

Gao Kuncui.