Frontier fortress poetry is an artistic reflection of frontier fortress life, and its ideological content is extremely rich: it can express the lofty sentiments and aspirations of eager to make contributions and serve the country; You can write about the homesickness of border guards and the feelings of missing women at home; It can show the monotonous hardships of life outside the Great Wall and the cruel hardships of years of fighting; You can vent your dissatisfaction with the opening of the border and your resentment against the greed of the general; You can marvel at describing the strange scenery and folk customs of the frontier. What is revealed in the poem may also be contradictory and complicated emotions: the generosity of joining the army and the helplessness of homesickness for a long time; The conflict between patriotic passion and hard life; Dedication to the country and hatred for the incompetence of the general.
Frontier poems in Han, Wei, Southern and Northern Dynasties
Reflect the hardships of the border war and the yearning for women. Poetry genre is mainly Yuefu poetry. Representative works include: Chen Lin's Journey to the Great Wall, Bao Zhao's Journey to the North Gate of Hebei, Cai Yan's Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia, Poems of Sorrow and Indignation, Xu Ling's Guan Shanyue, Wang Bao's Crossing Hebei and so on. 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 poems in this period.
Frontier poems in Sui Dynasty
Frontier fortress themes are more common, and even many poets sing frontier fortress poems on the same topic. There are both aria and quatrains in poetry genre. Although the number is small, it promotes the development of frontier poems. Representative works include: Drinking Horses in the Great Wall Cave by Emperor Yangdi Yang Di, Joining the Army by Lv Sidao, and Going out to the fortress by Xue Daoheng, etc.
Frontier poems in Tang dynasty
Frontier poems are the main theme of Tang poetry, the most profound, imaginative and artistic part of Tang poetry. Some writers who have personal frontier life experience and military life experience write with personal experience; Other poets created new works with Yuefu's old poems. The number of participants and the number of poems are unprecedented in the previous generation. His creation has experienced four stages: early Tang, prosperous Tang, middle Tang and late Tang. Among them, the frontier poems in the early Tang Dynasty had a high style and a strong sense of art. Luo, one of the four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty, wrote many frontier poems in the early Tang Dynasty. On the one hand, his frontier poems have a wide range of themes, including frontier scenery, the hard life of frontier soldiers, the ambition to kill the enemy and make contributions to the country, and the homesickness of frontier soldiers. It not only covers most areas of frontier fortress poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but also has a high style. Since then, other famous poets, such as Yang Jiong and Du Fu, have also created frontier poems. The creation of frontier fortress poems is all the rage.