The poets in High Tang period always joined the assistants to the ranking generals who garrisoned the frontier fortresses.
This factor is important to the boom of "
frontier poems" in High Tang period. But its effect was exaggerated and misquoted to some extent all through the ages because the succeeding scholars followed a traditional opinion of Hu Zhengheng, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty. Through investigating the historical reality about High -Tang's poets
traveling the border areas and joining the military staff in the frontier, the author points out that these kinds of phenomena were not so common in High Tang period and these effects were not so remarkable to the poetry as assumed by some seniors. In fact, these kinds of phenomena were part of the various and wide- ranging connection between the frontier and inland areas in High Tang period. It was this comprehensiveness and closeness of the connection that promoted the prosperity of High - Tang' s frontier poems. The author points out that a proper evaluation of the significance of their influence upon the development of the Tang Poetry can not be achieved without putting all these phenomena in a macro- view.