An Aesthetic Interpretation of Qinling’s Ecological Blend Features in Tang Poems

Abstract

The Qinling Mountains are known as the dragon veins of China, and are also the central mountains that are geographically compatible with north and south, and run through the east and the west. Such natural geographic conditions determine the special ecology of the Qinling. The Qinling Mountains are located near Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. Visitors passed through the Qinling Ancient Road very frequently, and living at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains became a leisure fashion for the upper class in the Tang Dynasty. Such natural and humanistic conditions have promoted the prosperity of Tang poetry on Qinling theme. And these Tang poems mostly reflect that Qinling ecological landscape is compatible with that of the north, the south, the east and the west in regional features and gradual and repeated progress in seasonal features. And then, aesthetics of poetry has been formed in Tang poems.