Culture

 Culture was important during the Tang dynasty. There were many parts of culture. One part of culture was poetry. Poetry was important during the Tang dynasty because many people wrote poems in letters to each other to express their thoughts. Poems were also recited in dinner parties and other events for entertainment. A poem always had a theme or message to certain people. Some themes in a poem would represent the understanding of life or the beauty of nature. Another part of culture was art. The kind of art that was in the Tang dynasty was landscape painting. Landscape painting was a piece of art that was painted on paper or silk. It was painted sometimes on silk because it absorbed paint quick. Artist usually painted on horizontal scrolls so on the scroll it would form a picture book. When artist would landscape paint, instead of painting the whole portrait they would leave some amounts of blank spots  to make the painting look perfect and balanced..Some of these landscape paintings were paintings of certain animals,Buddhist, emperors and  nature. These things were painted to show how important it is to them and because the character traits that represented them.

This is landscape painting.


This is poetry.