The reasons for the rise of northern poetry

Yang Xiuzhi, Lu Sidao and Xue Daoheng, who appeared in the late Northern Qi Dynasty, all lived in the Sui Dynasty. Among them, Xue Daoheng's main creative activities were in the Sui Dynasty. Yang Xiuzhi has few works and few representative works. However, Lu Sidao is very distinctive. His frontier poems are desolate and full of true feelings, which opened the precedent of frontier poems in Tang Dynasty.

The Northern Zhou Dynasty, which confronted the Northern Qi Dynasty, was located in an area with relatively backward culture in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, so there were fewer native literati. However, Yu Wentai, the founder of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, captured Yizhou (now Sichuan) and Jingzhou (now Xiangyang and Jiangling, Hubei) of the Liang Dynasty, and got southern poets such as Yu Xin and Wang Bo, so the number of existing poems in the Northern Zhou Dynasty exceeded that in the Northern Qi Dynasty. Yu Xin and Wang Bao's masterpieces were written after they arrived in the north. Compared with his works in the south, his poetic style has also changed. For example, the poems written by Yu Xin in the Southern Dynasties are beautiful and soft, and they are not out of the category of "palace poems"; After arriving in the north, there are many gloomy and sad words. His masterpiece "Zhun Yong Huai" is particularly outstanding. So Du Fu once said: "Yu Xin's articles are older and more mature, and Ling Yunjian's brushwork is vertical and horizontal." This change is inseparable from the author's life experience and experience. Wang Bao's situation is similar to that of Yu Xin. His poems are few in number, among which frontier fortress is the main poem read by people. Famous works such as Crossing Hebei are somewhat similar to Lu Sidao's works.