Abstract:
The Long Mountains were located in the border area between Gansu and Guanzhong, standing there as the first mountain pass from Chang'an to western Great Desert. In times of the court of Central China’s governance of the regions of western China by sending troops over there, the Long Mountains were the necessary passage those garrisons had to travel by. Since the Han Dynasty, the travelers were greatly moved and wrote poems to express their unusual emotions, hence the profound historical contents of the imagery of the Long Mountains. Poets in the Tang Dynasty succeeded the basic tone of former writing on the depths of the Long Mountains, extended its cultural implications and added their subjective imagination to description of border life. The Tang poets' writing about the Long Mountains was varied and rich, which expressed historical stock of ancient poetry, military and political status quo over there and the poets’ psychological recognition of the border life.
