entity Updated 2026-08-07 Tags: Place, Archaeology, Tang-Dynasty, Frontier, Xinjiang, Poetry

北庭故城 / Beiting Ancient City

北庭故城 / Beiting Ancient City is the Xinjiang site recommended by [[ZhangXingyun|张星云]] in EP264 踏访“唐诗之路”:盛唐气象少年心 for understanding [[CenShen|岑参]] and Tang frontier poetry. The episode links the site to Beiting service, the Tianshan view, Cheshi routes, and poems that came from lived western-region geography rather than from inherited frontier imagination alone.

In the source, Beiting matters as a place where literary reading and archaeological geography meet. It helps turn [[TangFrontierPoetryFieldExperience|边塞诗的实地经验]] into a site-specific branch of [[TangPoetryCulturalGeography|唐诗文化地理]].

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