"The cicadas sing in the empty mulberry forest, and the road is closed in August." is a poem by Wang Changling.
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Wang Changling has 181 poems in existence. The genres are mainly Five Ancients and Qijue, and the main themes are parting, frontier fortress, and palace resentment. In terms of quantity, institutional preparation, and wide range of themes, Wang Changling's poems are not as good as those of Li Bai, Du Fu, Gao Shi, and Cen Can, but the quality of his poems is very high. The frontier fortress poems can be combined with Gao Shi and Cen Shen. After the four outstanding figures, there are almost no frontier fortress poems in the poetry world.
After Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty changed the government military system to a recruitment system, literati became enthusiastic about joining the army in order to seek side merit. In the thirteenth year of Kaiyuan, Wang Changling roamed the northwest frontier, gained a deeper experience of frontier fortress life, and wrote a large number of frontier fortress poems. At this time, Cen Shen was 11 years old, and Gao Shi had not yet started the frontier fortress life. Later generations successively verified that Wang Changling was called frontier fortress poem. founder and pioneer.
Wang Changling's frontier fortress poems are good at capturing typical scenes, with a high degree of generalization and rich expressiveness. It not only reflects the main theme of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but also provides detailed descriptions of the scenery of the frontier fortress and border battlefield scenes. At the same time, it can capture the delicate inner world of the soldiers. The artistic conception of his poems is broad, the language is mellow and subtle, the tone is gentle and harmonious, and it is thought-provoking. He has high attainments in lyricism, landscaping, and freehand brushwork.
Wang Changling's palace resentment poems can compete with Li Bai's, and his poems are unique in their profound meaning, wonderful description of scenery, keen comparison and strange language. Wang Changling's poems about concubines use a spirit of compassion to describe the sorrow and lamentation of the concubines and palace residents who have been locked away in the palace for a long time. They use delicate brushwork to show their lives and emotional world in many aspects, and reveal the misery they encountered under the cruel palace funeral system. Destiny objectively criticizes the evil of feudal society that destroys women.