When are the nineteen ancient poems?

Nineteen Ancient Poems, which first appeared in Selected Works, were compiled by children in the Southern Dynasties based on unknown ancient poems handed down from generation to generation. The editor collected these five-character poems that the author has been unable to verify, and named them Miscellaneous Poems.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was social unrest and political chaos. The lower scribes wander, and there is no way to swim. Nineteen Ancient Poems was born in such an era, expressing the situation and feelings of the same kind.

There are different opinions about the author and age of Nineteen Ancient Poems. The bet on the topic of anthology of Zhao Ming's Miscellaneous Poems and Nineteen Ancient Poems once explained clearly: "Ancient poems are parallel, but the author is unknown." It is said that there are works by Mei Cheng, Yi Fu, Cao Zhi and RoyceWong. For example, eight of them are titled "Poems on Yutai" by Han Meicheng, but there is no basis, and later generations suspect that it is inaccurate. Another example is Cao Zhi's "To Ying's Family", which describes the depression scene after Luoyang was burned. However, in the eyes of the poet of "Nineteen Poems", Luoyang is still a double palace, and the first residence of the princes has not yet been settled, and the crown and the banquet are the same. And before Luoyang was destroyed, RoyceWong was still young and Cao Zhi was not born. A comprehensive survey of the emotional tendency, social life and skillful artistic skills of Nineteen Ancient Poems shows that it was not written by one person and one place, but was produced decades before Shun Di arrived in Xian Di in the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, before Jian 'an in the late Han Dynasty.