What is the Frontier Poetry School? What are the characteristics?

frontier fortress poem factions

Poetic schools in China in Tang Dynasty. During the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, some frontier poems appeared, and the number increased continuously in Sui Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty, Sijie and Chen Ziang further developed it and reached full maturity in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Gao Shi, Li Jie and Wang Changling are the most famous poets in this school, while Gao and Cen have the highest achievements, so they are also called School. Their poems mainly describe the frontier war, frontier customs and habits, and various contradictions brought about by the war, such as parting, homesickness and in my heart forever. Formally, most of them are seven-character quatrains and five-character quatrains, and the poetic style is tragic enough to show the atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. In addition to Gao and Cen, there are Wang Changling, Li Jie, Wang Zhihuan,.

Style characteristic

The frontier poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty have magnificent, bold, romantic, tragic and magnificent aesthetic styles. Generally speaking, it embodies a kind of masculine beauty. In frontier fortress poems, on the one hand, the cruelty of war and the harsh environment are expressed by exaggeration and contrast, such as "the life and death of soldiers in the first half", "the golden battle wears golden armor" and "several surviving watchmen by the lonely wall at sunset". On the other hand, frontier poems highlight the great spiritual strength of people rushing out in the face of war. Among them are: unyielding will and confidence to win, the lofty sentiments of defending our country and our country, and the ambition of establishing fame on the battlefield. For example, "Don't break Loulan, don't return it"; "I am willing to be a sword under my waist, just to cut Loulan"; "Until the white sword is seen again, spattered with red blood, when death becomes a responsibility, who will stop to think about fame". These two aspects are both opposite and unified. The tension caused by the unity of opposites makes poetry have eternal charm, and the sense of sublimity in poetry has become the strongest voice of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. The frontier poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty are characterized by the following four aspects: (1) They have a wide range of themes: on the one hand, they include: soldiers' ambition to make contributions, the hardships of frontier life, the cruel scenes of war, and soldiers' homesickness; On the other hand, it includes frontier scenery, frontier geography, ethnic customs, ethnic exchanges and so on. The former is the main theme. (2) Broad image: write big pictures and wonderful scenes. (3) High pitch: the momentum is smooth and full of sublimity. (4) Both genres are good: both songs and rhymes have excellent works. As far as the genre of frontier poems is concerned, the creation of ancient poetry, including songs and ci, has matured and become a grand view. Representative works include: Li Qi's "An Ancient Warsong" ... Camping in Wan Li without castles until the thick sky joins the snowy desert. The sorrowful Hu Yanyan flew through the air, and HUS soldiers were all in tears. …"; Cen Can's "Night Collection of Judges in Liangzhou Pavilion" "The curved moon rises and hangs Chengtou, and the moon in Chengtou shines in Liangzhou. There are 700,000 people around Liangzhou, and the conference semifinals here know how to play the pipa. The touching pipa pipa piano is very heartwarming, only feel the wind, oh, the night is long. ... "On the other hand, the frontier poems of recent style are also maturing. Representative works include: Wang Changling's "Out of the Great Wall" and "When the moon was clear in Qin Dynasty, people did not return on the Long March". But make Longcheng fly, and don't teach Huma to cross the Yinshan Mountain. " ; Wang Changling's "Join the Army" "The desert is dusty and the red flag is half-rolled. In order to capture Gu Hun alive, the former army fought at night in Taohe River. " ; Wang Zhihuan's "The Embankment" "The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, an isolated city, Wan Ren. Why blame the willow for the flute? The spring breeze is just like Yumen Pass. " ; William Wang's "Liangzhou Ci" "Glowing glass of wine", if you want to drink the pipa, you should urge it immediately. Drunk lying on the battlefield, you don't laugh, and you have fought several wars in ancient times. "

New frontier fortress poems

The new frontier poems refer to a group of poets in the 1950s and 1980s. They inherited the tradition of ancient frontier poems, especially those in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, reproduced and expressed the theme of frontier life in northwest China in modern Chinese, and at the same time possessed frontier temperament and style. This paper compares the new frontier poems with the frontier poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty from the aspects of time, region and poet's poetic style, and further discusses the relationship between the inheritance and breakthrough of the new frontier poems and the frontier poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.