A Study Of Frontier Fortress Yuefu Poetry And Its Creation Mentality In Liang Dynasty

The word "frontier fortress" contains political,military,historical,cultural,national and regional contents and so on.And it is a complex and rich meaning system.The Frontier Yuefu Poetry of Liang Dynasty has certain musicality,which includes six kinds of style by "Hengchuiquci ","Xianghe ballad ","lyrics of guqin songs ","Qingshang Qu ","Zaqu Lyrics " and "Military odes ".When writing them,the literati in the Liang Dynasty not only simulated the titles of ancient Yuefu poems,but also created new titles,which are mostly associated with both war and parting.Furthermore,poets often use the method of "fu" to create according to the meaning of the title of the poem.The authors of the Frontier Yuefu Poetry in the Liang Dynasty can be roughly divided into three categories: the first category is the Xiao imperial kinsmen,the second category is the descendant of literati family,and the third category is the poor scholar.These three types of creative subjects are located in three social classes,with different experiences and different mindsets.Although the Xiao was the descendant of the royal family and shouldered the important task of the state,the Liang Dynasty's people preferred to live in the south of the Yangtze river,valuing literature while ignoring sports.As a result,the descendant of the Xiao imperial kinsmen gradually lost their enterprising spirit in the comfortable environment,and the heart of the northern expedition became increasingly weak,which can be clearly felt in the Frontier Yuefu Poetry.The family literati mostly are Palace style poets around Xiao and his sons,because each family has different cultural background and political background,so their ideological mentality in the Frontier Yuefu Poetry also vary,such as the frontier poems of Shen Yue presents a desire for fame,the frontier poems of Xu Ling presents the thought of parting as well as the thought of old country,the frontier poems of Yu Xin present Sorrowful Emotion,the hate of national subjugation,and homesickness,the Liu family generally presents a desire for serve the country.The representative of the poor scholar is Wu Jun,who was born in a humble family and experienced the ups and downs of official career.In his frontier Yuefu poems,he showed his passion to kill the enemy for meritorious service and his sadness and indignation at serving his country without a door,as well as his gratitude and complaints to Emperor Liangwu.The Frontier Yuefu Poetry of the Liang Dynasty were influenced by the Palace style poetry,both from form and content.The poets of Liang Dynasty's Frontier Yuefu Poetry attached great importance to the innovation of the artistic styles.Compared with the previous Frontier Poems with the same title,the Frontier Yuefu Poetry in the Liang Dynasty presents the feminization of the subject matter,the regularity of the form and the virtualization of the image,mainly due to the Liang Dynasty people's mentality of seeking "new changes".In terms of female description,the poets of the Liang Dynasty were also influenced by the depiction of buddhist women.In addition,the Liang Dynasty people lived in a time of turmoil,worried about their own fate,which met with the Indian goddess worship,called up the original female worship consciousness,they were eager to find spiritual support and redemption in women.The Liang Dynasty was an era of aesthetic consciousness.They sought the beauty of literature to achieve the consolation of the soul.In the process of exploring the beauty of literature,they explored many writing skills,which provided experience for the creation of the later frontier poetry.However,think more deeper,their description of women and pursuit of form actually reflected the weakening of male atmosphere and literati's sense of responsibility at that time.