The frontier fortress poetry in ancient China reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty. However, after the Tang Dynasty, the frontier fortress poetry experienced a long-term slump. Although during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, in some periods, frontier fortress poetry even enjoyed partial prosperity, and some poets
He has also made remarkable achievements in the creation of frontier poems.
But in the past seven hundred years, there is no doubt that the creation of frontier poems has indeed been in a low ebb as a whole.
If you think about it carefully, this is not surprising. The territory of the Song and Ming dynasties was limited. The poets lacked the opportunity to see the majestic scenery of the Shuo Desert in the far west, and it was difficult to participate in military expeditions spanning thousands of miles. Naturally, they were unable to create works comparable to
Frontier poems of the Han and Tang dynasties.
Although the territory of the Yuan Dynasty was extremely vast, because the Mongolian and Yuan rulers did not pay much attention to Han civil servants, Han officials rarely had the opportunity to participate in these magnificent expeditions, and naturally they could not leave poems describing the frontier fortresses.
It was not until the establishment of the Shun Dynasty that the sluggish situation of frontier poetry was fundamentally changed.
Since the establishment of the Dashun Dynasty, due to the fifty-year reign of the founder of the country, the founder of the country attached great importance to border services and used more foreign troops. The army stretched as far as the western regions, reaching the Binghai in the north, expanding to Yingzhou in the west, and crossing the ocean in the south. Many poets followed the officers and soldiers of the Dashun army.
With his pace, he was fortunate to see all kinds of magnificent and incredible majestic landscapes outside the territory, so he was able to leave behind a large number of frontier poems describing the military.
Frontier poems are like dead trees blooming in spring. After the decline of the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, there was a revival scene.
The prosperity of frontier fortress poetry during the Shun Dynasty was characterized by the large number of poems and the wide range of poets.
From the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, only more than 200 frontier fortress poems were left to later generations. In the Tang Dynasty, when culture was the most prosperous, only more than 2,000 frontier fortress poems were left to later generations.
The total number of frontier fortress poems from the Shun Dynasty that have been preserved for later generations is roughly estimated to be more than 50,000, which is an astonishing number that exceeds the total number of ancient frontier fortress poems before.
At the same time, the creative team of Shun Dynasty frontier fortress poets also greatly expanded.
Judging from the identity of the author, in addition to literati and scholars, there are also a large number of emperors, ministers, and border generals. There are a large number of professional travelers, adventurers, diplomats, scientific researchers, foreign businessmen, immigrant groups, and garrison refugees.
, also joined the ranks of creation one after another, giving the frontier poems of the Dashun Dynasty a special appearance of a hundred flowers blooming.
This also makes the writing style of Shun Dynasty frontier fortress poems extremely varied. They not only involve the majestic scenery of the frontier fortress and the hard life of the military, but also often describe travel adventures, special customs of ethnic minorities, the exciting excitement of exploration activities, and the integration of immigrant groups into local life, etc.
diverse themes.
Most of the frontier fortress poets in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties had no experience in frontier fortresses, and only relied on historical classics and other people's narrations for their creations. A considerable number of important frontier fortress poets in the Tang Dynasty had never been to the frontier, or only occasionally set foot on the frontier.
Among the frontier fortress poets of the Shun Dynasty, almost all of the more well-known creators had experience living in frontier fortresses. Many of them had been stationed overseas in frontier fortresses for a long time, and even personally participated in a large number of frontier fortress conquests.
It can be said that the practical experience of frontier life of the frontier fortress poets of the Shun Dynasty far exceeded that of previous generations. The area reflected in their poems was also unprecedentedly broad and was by no means limited to a corner of the Western Regions.
Japan, Southeast Asia, India, Persia, Europe, and the New World, which poets of the Han and Tang dynasties did not focus on in the past, all became the main themes of the frontier poets of the Shun Dynasty in their colorful creations.
It can be said that the long-standing frontier fortress poetry truly became a poem describing the four realms in the Shun Dynasty.
Moreover, the frontier fortress poems of the Shun Dynasty not only wrote about military conquests, border scenery, and ethnic exchanges... Emperor inspections, border settlements, overseas expeditions, colonial immigration, exile life, exotic foods, etc., have all entered the scope of creative themes.
, filling the gaps left by the previous generation.
The Shun Dynasty was a unified dynasty, and it was in the transformation period in Chinese history from the feudal period to the capitalist period, and from the feudal empire to the colonial empire.
This is certainly not the same as the Song Dynasty, which was in a state of division for a long time. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, which was also in a unified state, its territory was much wider.
Moreover, after the late Shun Dynasty, due to the frequent activities of the Republicans, a large number of party members from aristocrats, bureaucrats, and wealthy families were exiled to Suiye Prefecture, Yingzhou, Zhaonan, Qingqiu, Zhourao and other colonial territories.
These scholars with extremely high cultural attainments left behind a large number of splendid frontier fortress poems during their arduous and difficult life in exile.
For example, the well-known Republican historian Zhao Yi created a large number of academic masterpieces criticizing the Shun Dynasty and revealing the true history of the early Republic of China during his exile in Qingqiu. He also left many masterpieces depicting the magnificence of Qingqiu's natural landscape.
, a frontier poem about the beautiful scenery of multi-ethnic integration.
Han Chinese, Jurchens, Japanese, Koreans, Indians, and Spaniards, these major ethnic groups in Qingqiu Prefecture have embarked on the road of great integration, forming a brand new Qingqiu nation in modern times.
Regarding the birth of this nation, any scholar must regard Zhao Yi's "New World Hearing and Seeing Records", "Qingqiu Poetry", "Qingqiu Prefecture Miscellaneous Poems" and other works as the most important investigation materials.
The Qingqiu Prefecture Colony of the Shun Dynasty began in the 15th year of Tianfa. At that time, Spain was in great pain due to being deeply involved in the war with France.
Due to frequent conflicts between Shun Dynasty and Spain over the silver trade, Spain made an important decision this year in order to lift Shun Dynasty's trade sanctions and official pirate attacks, which was to sign the sale of the California Peninsula.
Treaty of Ningbo for the entire Crescent Bay Colony.
At this time, the Philippines had already become a Luzon colony owned by the Nanyang Yanping Trading Company. In addition, the Zhaonanfu Strait had long been under the direct jurisdiction of the Shun Dynasty government, and the Manila galleon triangular trade had all fallen under the control of the Shun Dynasty.
After that, a large number of immigrants went to Qingqiu Prefecture on Manila galleons. Among them were colonization soldiers sent by the imperial court, and refugees who had left their hometowns for living reasons. The most eye-catching one was of course the large number of exiled prisoners.
These immigrants established many settlements on the west coast of the New World to the west of Qingqiu Mountain. However, due to the long and narrow coast, widespread deserts, hot and arid climate, and extremely scarce freshwater resources, most areas were not suitable for farming.
The colonial life in Qingqiu Prefecture was extremely difficult in the early years. The Spaniards, who had already settled in the New World for many years, and the local indigenous Indians provided a lot of help to the Shun Dynasty colonists who arrived later.
Due to the sparse population in the early days, Dashun even issued a special decree allowing Spaniards and Indians to sign up to become official colonists of the Shun Dynasty.
The culture of Qingqiu Prefecture has had a strong mixed-blood color from the very beginning, which is very different from the Zhourao Prefecture colony, which was almost all established by Han colonists. In the end, these two colonies were also born out of the Dashun Empire.
Overseas colonies have embarked on completely different development paths.