| Abstract |
Tang Dynasty was a critical period in Chinese seasonal festivals. It liberated festivals fromaboriginal taboo worship and made them auspicious ones with the entertainment and etiquettecharacteristic. Given the exuberant economics and culture development and the increasingvariegation content of festivals, folk entertainment reached its peak development and became animportant subject of fu-composition.Compared to its previous dynasties, Tang Dynasty not only upheld the traditional festivalsbut created new ones such as Emperor Birthday, Chung-Ho Festival, Lao-Zi Birthday, BuddhaBirthday, etc. Particularly, the Chien-Chiu (Qian-Qiu) Festival (i.e., Tang Xuan Zong’ Birthday)were often the main writing materials for Tang Dynasty fu-poets. Their writings, e.g., rope show,pole show, rodeos, etc., not only reflected the prosperity of Tang Dynasty but furnished thedevelopment of art and cultural activities at that time and later time. Furthermore, this kind ofcomposition influenced art and cultural creation and deeply enhanced psychological meanings ofpolitics and culture. Since the fu-composition on festivities extended the subjects of Chineseclassic poetry and enriched festival culture, its special aesthetics is surely meaningful andvaluable.
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