Wang Changling was very good at writing frontier poems, and later generations labeled him as a frontier poet. As a poet who has a deep understanding of life in the military camp, Wang Changling's frontier poems always bring us surprises, and almost the first one touches people's hearts. Wang Changling's excellent frontier poems have a desolate and tragic feeling, which makes people lament.
Wang Changling's poems, with the desolate frontier fortress in autumn as the background, show the poet's infinite sympathy for guarding the frontier and recruiting talents, and the poems are full of desolation. Wang Changling's frontier poems with Yuefu as the theme are desolate and tragic, which are touching to read. Because of their unique artistry and ideological content, these two poems were selected into 300 Tang poems and became masterpieces handed down from generation to generation.
Brief introduction of the author
Wang Changling (698-757), also known as Shao Bo, was a minister in the Tang Dynasty and a famous frontier poet. In the 15th year of Kaiyuan (727), he was a scholar, a school librarian, and the county magistrate of Sishui County. Kaobo learned great words and sat in exile in Lingnan. At the end of Kaiyuan, he returned to Chang 'an and was named Jiangning County Cheng. During the Anshi Rebellion, he was killed by Qiu Xiao, the secretariat of Bozhou. Wang Changling had deep contacts with Li Bai, Gao Shi, Wang Wei, Wang Zhihuan and Cen Can.
His poems are famous for their four wonders, especially frontier poems, which are called "the poet's son of heaven" and "the seven wonders hand". He is the author of six volumes of Wang Jiangning Collection. There are 18 1 poems in Wang Changling. The genre is mainly composed of five ancient poems and seven quatrains, and the themes are mainly parting, frontier fortress and palace resentment. Wang Changling's poems are not as good as those of Li Bai, Du Fu, Gao Shi and Cen Can, but his poems are of high quality. Frontier poems can be compared with Gao Shi and Cen Can, but after three or four outstanding poets, there are almost no frontier poems.
Wang Changling's frontier poems are good at capturing typical scenes, with high generalization and rich expressive force. It not only reflects the main theme of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but also describes the frontier fortress scenery and frontier fortress battlefield scenes in detail, and captures the delicate inner world of soldiers. His poems have broad artistic conception, mellow language, euphemistic and harmonious tone, which is thought-provoking, and he has high attainments in lyricism, landscaping and freehand brushwork.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Changling.