Northern Song Dynasty, Liao Dynasty Poetry

Visting Liao' s poetry is a special kind of poetry among Song dynasty poetry. It' s the heritor of traditional borderarea poetry. They' re both the products of mainland' s relationship with foreignland , and have similarities on topic and content. However, Visiting Liao' s poetry is a newborn poetry topic on the history of Chinese poetry. It was produced under the special political circumstance that Liao and Song were on conflict and exchanged ambassadors frequently. Written by Song dynasty' s ambassadors, these poems recorded in detail some important things between Song and Liao' s relationship objectively. They described the landscape and customs of the borderarea of Liao, presented the subtle and embarrassed mind of Song dynasty officialdom that they were discontent with the conflict but at the same time they shifted responsibility for themselves.These poems not only provides rich history information for the research of Liao' s society and relationship between two dynasties , but also give us an important eyesight to explore the unique spirit, of people in Song dynasty. Meanwhile, visiting Liao' s poetry has evident defects because of writers' and environment , so its achievement is hamperd.