Tang poetry represents the golden age of Chinese verse, when Li Bai raised his wine cup to the moon and Du Fu wept for his fallen nation.

Even today, a thousand years later, Chinese children recite these poems. They are the DNA of Chinese literature — every educated person knows them by heart.

In a few dozen characters, Tang poets captured the vastness of mountains, the intimacy of friendship, the ache of exile, and the fleeting beauty of cherry blossoms.

The regulated verse reached its peak in the Tang dynasty, with its strict rules of tonal pattern, parallelism, and structure — yet within these constraints, the greatest poets found infinite freedom.