The poets of the Tang Dynasty who are famous for their frontier themes are Gao Shi, Wang Changling, and Cen Shen
1. Gao Shi
Gao Shi, courtesy name Dafu, was born in Bohai County, Cangzhou . A minister and frontier poet during the Tang Dynasty.
Frontier poetry has the highest achievement. Representative works such as "Yan Ge Xing", "Five Songs from Jimen", "Song above the Fortress", "Songs from the Fortress", "Songs from the Ji", and "Three Songs from Nine Songs", etc., eulogize the heroic spirit of soldiers who bravely serve the country and make contributions, and also write It reveals the hardships of their military life and their good wishes for peace, and reveals the arrogance and lewdness of the border generals, their lack of respect for the soldiers, the unclear rewards and punishments of the court, and their inability to secure the border, revealing their concern for the country and love for the people.
2. Wang Changling
Wang Changling, also known as Shaobo, is a famous frontier poet. His poems are famous for Qijue, especially his poems on frontier fortresses. He is known as the "Poet Master" and the "Sage of Qijue". In the 13th year of Kaiyuan, Wang Changling roamed the northwest frontier, gained a deeper experience of frontier life, and wrote a large number of frontier poems. Later generations successively called Wang Changling the founder and pioneer of frontier poems. Wang Changling's frontier fortress poems are good at capturing typical scenes, with a high degree of generalization and rich expressive power. 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.
3. Cen Shen
Cen Shen, a native of Jiangling, Jingzhou or Jiyang, Nanyang, was a poet of the Tang Dynasty, and was called "Gao Cen" together with Gao Shi.
During his two trips to the fortress, Cen Shen, driven by his generous spirit of meritorious service at the frontier fortress, vividly expressed the strange scenery and people in the northwest desert with a generous and heroic tone and unique artistic techniques. It has a majestic and majestic beauty, breaking through the traditional pattern of previous garrison poems describing the bitter cold in the border areas and the hard work of the soldiers, and greatly enriched and broadened the scope of descriptive themes and content of frontier fortress poems.