北宋是诗歌新变、词体成熟、散文繁盛的重要历史阶段,这一新型文学格局的形成深受特定民族关系格局的影响。在北宋167年的发展历程中,民族之间的纷争与融合成为社会政治生活的主导内容,而历经百余年的宋夏战争则是北宋民族关系的一条主线。北宋自始至终都没有摆脱过宋夏战争的困扰,文人也因此深受这场持久战争的影响。在宋夏战争的影响和支配下,北宋文人有了更多的时代感受与历史经验,文学创作因之有了更加广阔的现实内容 The Northern Song Dynasty is an important historical stage in which poetry has changed dramatically, its style matures and its prose prosperous. The formation of this new literary style is deeply influenced by the relations among certain ethnic groups. During the course of 167 years of the Northern Song Dynasty, disputes and merger among different ethnic groups became the main contents of social and political life. After more than one hundred years of the Song-Xia Wars, it was one of the main lines of ethnic relations in the Northern Song Dynasty. The Northern Song dynasty did not get rid of the war between Song and Xia all the time and the literati were therefore deeply influenced by this protracted war. Under the influence and domination of the Song-Xia Wars, the writers of the Northern Song Dynasty had more experience and experience of the times, and the literary creations had a much broader realistic content