No matter who, when, and where you are, pursuing the truth is always the goal which human beings yearn for. It also deposited in the deep layers of “culture stratum”.
This thesis covers lives and literatures, religions and poetries and is a multidisciplinary approach. The topic “poetries for pursuing the truth” is also a brand new concept which can be regarded as another new category in Tang Poetry. Besides traditional thoughts of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, the skills in the western social and humane sciences are also utilized in this thesis. First, the cultures in Tang Dynasty which contributed to the bloom of “poetries for pursuing the truth” were analyzed. Second, the core of “poetries for pursuing the truth” was discussed from three aspects: types of topics, philosophy, and characteristic of arts. Last was a parallel dimension approach which compared “poetries for pursuing the truth” and some other relevant poetries.
Readers can join the trips that the poets had experienced when appreciating the poetries here. The poetries are actually the recordings of poets’ love and earnestness to lives. They also provide a route to disillusion and transcend the barrier in mind as well as a space to introspect and observe ourselves. It is a really treasure for the modern human beings who live in a chaos society and lose the courage to face to themseoves.