A good many poets in the Tang Dynasty worked as consultants and assistants. And they expressed their minds as to accepting these appointments in their poems and articles. Since consultantship and assistant consultantship were two lowerrank but very promising governmental positions, most poets were basically moved to accept them but some declined. However, either attitude to these governmental positions shows vividly political psychology of poets in the Tang Dynasty.

poets in the Tang Dynasty; consultant in the Tang Dynasty; consultantship; assistant consultantship; psychology of poets