Poems of frontier troops

The frontier fortress military poem is the main theme of Tang poetry, and it is the most profound, imaginative and artistic part of Tang poetry. Poems that focus on the life of frontier troops, or describe the wonders beyond the Great Wall, or reflect the hardships of guarding the frontier are called frontier poems.

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Reflect the hardships of the border war and the yearning for women. Poetry genre is mainly Yuefu poetry. Representative works include: Chen Lin's Drinking Horses in the Great Wall Cave, Gao Shi's Yan Gexing, Bao Zhao's Ghost Story from the Journey to the North Gate of Hebei, Cai Yan's Eighteen Beats of Husan, Poems of Sorrow and Indignation, Xu Ling's Guan Shanyue, and Wang Bao's Crossing Hebei, etc.

In Chen Lin's "Drinking Horses in the Cave of the Great Wall", the poet tells the truth about the sufferings of the frontier fortress with the tone of a bystander, a frontier fighter and a homesick. Simple language and unique ideas. It represents the style of frontier fortress military poems in this period.