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The study investigated with what meaning the term of ‘文學’ was used in Tang dynasty through analysis of examples related to literature shown on documents in Tang dynasty, and explained a role that its characteristics take in Chinese literary history. The term of ‘文學’ had meanings of both pure literature and academic studies. When seeing development aspects of literary idea before Tang dynasty, examples to indicate phenomena of pure literature increased while examples meaning academic studies decreased more and more. However, examples meaning academic studies increased again in Tang dynasty. This can be said restoration of literary idea. For examples of poet, meaning of poet changed from the author of , a person who protects spirit of Confucianism to a person who writes poems, which is common noun gradually. Thinking about poem is changing from utilitarian literary theory of Confucianism to direction to stress artistic sense of beauty. Idea to divide poem and prose appeared because values of social edification and artistic pursuit collide each other in the midst of literary idea of contemporary literary writers.