In his early years of poem writing, Cui Hao mainly wrote graceful and pleasant Yuefu verse songs with varying structures, which greatly enriched the means of writing of this stock subjectmatter. His female subjectmatters were also varied, flexible and natural in devices of expression and length of text. However, in his late days of writing, Cui “radically changed his regular style of writing”, writing numbers of border poems, which showed the poet’s high craftsmanship in depicting the borderland, intense plot and exotic customs and styles. Cui didn’t write many poems but contributed numbers of lengthy texts of verse songs. His scenic poems were grandiose and impressive, giving a grandeur of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Cui Hao; Yuefu verse song; female subjectmatter; border poem; poetry in the Tang Dynasty