Cultural Interpretation of Tang Dynasty Frontier Poetry

Author: Ren Wenjing
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This book discusses the influence of the spirit of the times on frontier poets. The spirit of the times includes three aspects: the spirit of enterprising, the spirit of martial valor, and the spirit of wandering knights. The spirit of the times has had a significant impact on the strong sense of achievement and the bold actions of frontier poets in going to the frontier. Tang Dynasty frontier poems have strong regional characteristics, and the historical events, poets' travels, and landscapes they reflect are closely linked to regional culture. Frontier poems of different periods have different characteristics, and their cultural environments also have considerable differences. The development of frontier poems reflects social and historical changes and psychological changes. The high spirits and vigor of frontier poets in the early and mid-Tang Dynasty are vividly reflected in frontier poems, as well as the sense of crisis and cultural reflection of frontier poets in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. The poems of frontier women in the Tang Dynasty, especially the "poems of women behind screens," vividly reproduce the lonely lives and painful emotions of women, as well as their attitudes toward frontier wars, which have high value.