From "Poems of a Thousand Family".
It is a merger of Song Dynasty's "Re-edition of Thousand Family Poems" by Xie Fangde and "Five-Character Thousand Family Poems" selected by Wang Xiang of the Qing Dynasty. It is an anthology of enlightenment poems in the old days of our country.
Because most of the poems selected are famous poems from the Tang and Song Dynasties, which are easy to learn and understand, and have various themes, such as landscapes and pastoral, farewell to friends, homesickness and nostalgia for people, mourning the past and lamenting the present, and chanting objects and paintings. , serving banquets should be made. It also has the advantages of being short and concise, neat in form, interesting and easy to memorize. It widely reflects the social reality of the Tang and Song Dynasties, so it has been widely circulated among the people and has extremely far-reaching influence.
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In the forty-fifth year of Kangxi, Cao Yin published "The Twelve Types of Neem Pavilion", which included "Selected Poems of Thousands of Sages of the Tang and Song Dynasties Compiled by Category", signed by Cao Yin "Compiled by Mr. Gomura". "Mr. Houcun" is Liu Kezhuang in the Southern Song Dynasty, whose courtesy name is Qianfu and he calls himself a layman in Houcun.
However, some people think that the poetry collection was written under pseudonyms. Later, two kinds of Qianjia poems appeared in the literature, namely "Re-edited Qianjia poems" (both seven-character rhymed poems) signed by Xie Fangde of the Song Dynasty and annotated by Wang Xiang of the Qing Dynasty, and "New five-character Qianjia poems" annotated by Wang Xiangxuan. Hou Shufang published the two together, which became the popular version of "Qianjia Shi".
Although it is said to be a thousand families, "Poetry of a Thousand Families" actually only records 122 families. According to dynasties: 65 families in the Tang Dynasty, 52 families in the Song Dynasty, 1 family in the Five Dynasties, 2 families in the Ming Dynasty, and 2 families of unknown authors whose dates cannot be determined. Among them, Du Fu selected the most poems, with 25 poems, followed by Li Bai, with 8 poems; the female poet only selected 2 Qijue poems by Zhu Shuzhen from the Song Dynasty.
Baidu Encyclopedia--Thousands of Poems