Who is the author of Nineteen Ancient Poems? What kind of thoughts does this poem express to the author?

Nineteen Ancient Poems is a group of five-character poems written by an anonymous person at the end of Han Dynasty. It first appeared in Tong's Selected Works, marked as Nineteen Ancient Poems, and later generations used this name. They were not made by one person, nor were they made at one time. It came into being in the period of Huanling at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the author was a middle-and lower-class scholar at that time. Posthumous title is an "archaic poem", which is the customary title of Chinese poetry after Wei and Jin Dynasties.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, politics was extremely corrupt and dark, eunuchs and consorts monopolized power, and bureaucratic clansmen monopolized the way to study, so the society was on the eve of great turmoil. The vast number of literati or quartet wandering, making friends, job hunting; Or frustrated and down and out; In this poem, his pains and complaints are expressed from different angles. For example, "Life is Less than 100" expresses the feeling that life is too short to eat, drink and be merry in time; "Today's Good Banquet" advocates being keen on being an official and robbing money; "There are tall buildings in the northwest" is hard to find a bosom friend; "Moonlight Night Lamp" complains that the world is shallow; More works show the homesickness of wandering wanderers, such as Walking Again, Grass by the Green River, and Picking Hibiscus on the River. They generally have a strong sentimental color, and some of them also show pessimism and world-weariness, reflecting the pain, disappointment and hesitation of intellectuals in the reality of corruption and decline.