New Changes in the Connotation of Chivalries and Cognition of the Literati's Identity in Chivalric Poetry in the Prosperous Tang Dynasty
The connotation of chivalry in ancient China was closely related to chivalric literature and was constantly changing and devel-oping in response to the latter.In the prosperous Tang Dynasty,its connotation took on new changes under the continuous influence of Confucianism and the tradition of literati poetry.As a result,the poems continued to inherit and carry forward the chivalric traits of i-dentifying clearly gratces from grudges and taking lightly of life and death matters and highlighting repayment of gratitude to the king rather than simply fighting against the rule by force.More than that,some young men of noble birth regarded chivalry as a means of pleasure and some women were also characterized as chivalrous due to the strong national power and the martial culture.The aforemen-tioned changes derived from the transformation of the literati's way of realizing their own value,for the chivalrous poetry can manifest their different identity perceptions,namely,the hero dedicated to the country,the"Confucian"ashamed of wasting time and the"chival-ry"characteristic of weighing righteousness against profits By then,the connotation of chivalry gained a breakthrough and the Chinese chivalric poetry reached its peak.
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