The Tang Dynasty was a relatively enlightened and open feudal dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, the relationship between the Han nationality in the Central Plains and the surrounding ethnic minorities became closer and closer. The Tang Dynasty attached importance to military development and expanded to the surrounding areas.
At the same time, the surrounding ethnic minorities are gradually rising and growing, which makes more border conflicts in the Tang Dynasty, and therefore many border poems were born.
The history of the Tang Dynasty can be divided into four stages: the early Tang Dynasty, the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the middle Tang Dynasty and the late Tang Dynasty, and the style and tone of frontier poems in each stage are also different.
Frontier poems in the early Tang Dynasty were more romantic, while frontier poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty were mainly based on lofty sentiments and ambitions. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, with the decline of national strength in the Tang Dynasty, the emotion in frontier fortress poems turned to desolation, showing an anti-war tendency.
Among many dynasties in ancient China, the Tang Dynasty was a more prosperous and powerful era.
At that time, the politics was relatively open and the economy was prosperous, and the Han nationality in the Central Plains had closer contacts with the surrounding ethnic minorities. Due to its own ethnic origin and origin, the Tang government also implemented a relatively open ethnic policy and less discriminated against neighboring ethnic regimes.
At the same time, the Tang Dynasty paid attention to military development and expanded its territory, and the surrounding ethnic minorities such as Xianbei, Turkic, Koguryo, Tuguhun and Tubo also rose one after another, which led to frequent border exchanges and conflicts in the Tang Dynasty.
This historical background created the rise and prosperity of frontier poems, an important school of poetry in Tang Dynasty.