"Border Poetic Style, Western Spirit - A Panorama of Ancient Western Poetry"

Author: Xue Zongzheng
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: Frontier poetry is an important genre of ancient Chinese poetry, a rare bloom in the garden of Han literature. The western frontier is the land where these poets are emotionally and spiritually connected. It embodies the masculine beauty of the national spirit, the enterprising and sharp spirit of pursuing ambitions, and the fearless quality of sharing weal and woe with the motherland. It elevates itself into an inseparable bond with the western land, with its authors passing down from generation to generation, collectively composing the grand epic of the Chinese nation and this symphony of the western frontier with its rich melodies. Frontier poetry originated from the yearning, root-seeking, and affinity for the mysterious western regions of the motherland, as well as ancient sentiments. At the very moment when the dawn's light first rose and the curtain of history was just lifted, the Zhou Dynasty, established in the Yellow River Basin, and the Chu Kingdom, established in the Yangtze River Basin, both independently sought their roots in the sacred mountain Kunlun in the far western region. This reflects the long-standing historical connections across the shifting sands, thus indicating that the integration of the western region into China's territory was an inevitable historical destiny.