Zhong Rong, a contemporary of Liu Xie, gave a higher evaluation of the ancient poems of the Han Dynasty in the Poems, and even said that 14 of them were written by Lu Ji. "Yi Li, Wen Wen, is far-reaching and thrilling, and can almost be described in one word." Unlike Liu Xie, Zhong Rong does not doubt the poems handed down from ancient times, such as Li Ling and Ban Jieyu. Although he admits that the times are "embarrassing and the world is difficult to detail", he believes that they came before Li Ling. It is based on this understanding that Zhong Rong put "ancient poetry" at the front of the book for comments according to his poetry evaluation principle, "in one product, the generation takes the lead, not the merits and demerits". And Xiao Tong, Liang Yusheng, etc., also confronted Zhong Rong. Ren Fang said in "The Origin of Articles": "Five-character poems, Li Ling, a captain in Han Dynasty, Su Wushi." Xiao Tong didn't say who was the author of Nineteen Ancient Poems, but Nineteen Ancient Poems was named after his earliest compilation in Selected Works. At the same time, he said in the preface to Selected Works: "Ci Fu is in Zou's works, and Na Xia is in He Liang's works in four words and five words, and the regions are different." The "chapter on the river" here refers to Li Ling's poem "Join hands on the river and beam". It can be seen that scholars in the Han Dynasty have different views on the generation time and author of five-character poems since the Six Dynasties.
After the Tang and Song Dynasties, the study of literati poems in the Han Dynasty increased day by day. According to some poems in Nineteen Ancient Poems, Shan Li clearly pointed out that these poems were written by the Eastern Han Dynasty, but not all of them were written by Mei Cheng in the Western Han Dynasty. However, Jiao Ran and Bai Juyi, released in the Tang Dynasty, still hold a positive attitude towards the legendary poems of Li Ling and Su Wu. Although Cai Houju, a poet in the Song Dynasty, disagreed with Shan Li, he believed that Nineteen Songs was not written by one person, and there must be works by Mei Cheng, Li Ling and others. Wang Yinglin, on the other hand, took Yu Meiren's poems quoted in Justice in Historical Records as evidence, and thought that five-character poems had appeared in the early Han Dynasty. However, in Five Paintings of Rongzhai 14, Hong Mai, a poet in the Song Dynasty, claimed that these poems must have been forged by later generations on the grounds that there was the word "ying" in Li Ling's poems and Mei Cheng's poems, which was taboo by Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty (according to this, it has been refuted by later generations). Since then, there have been more and more disputes about the author's age of five-character poems written by scholars in Han Dynasty.
"Poetry Talk" has been an important form of China's literary criticism since the Tang and Song Dynasties. The Jin Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, the number of poets and legalists in Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and Lu Shiyong's Mirror of Ancient Poems all spoke highly of Chinese poetry. In particular, Zhang Jie's Poems in Han Sui, Yan Yu's Poems in Canglang and Hu Yinglin's Poems in Ming Dynasty are valuable reference materials for future generations to study China's poems.
Since the society of the Zhou Dynasty, people in China have attached great importance to music. Yuefu poetry, which originated in the Han Dynasty, has been paid attention to by successive dynasties since Wei, Jin and Shang Dynasties. In the official history of the past dynasties, from the beginning of Ban Gu's Hanshu, there is a special discussion on the Rites and Music Records produced by Yuefu in the Han Dynasty. Later, it was also recorded in Song Shu, among which Shu Yuezhi deserves the most attention. Among them, there is a volume devoted to the songs of harmony between Han and Wei dynasties, and another volume records the songs of miscellaneous dances and eighteen songs of cymbals worship in Han dynasty, which provides early and reliable information for future generations to understand the development of Yuefu poetry in Han dynasty in detail. After the Tang Dynasty, Du You's Tongdian Yuedian, Zheng Qiao's Tongzhi Yuefu and Ma Duanlin's Literature Tongkao Lekao recorded the development and evolution of Yuefu in the Han Dynasty in detail, which are important documents for us to study Yuefu and its evolution in the Han Dynasty. The most important work of Yuefu Poetry in Han Dynasty is Guo Maoqian's Yuefu Poetry in Song Dynasty. In addition to the collected complete works, this book is also characterized by solving problems for each category and even some important chapters. This research-oriented Yuefu poetry collection laid a solid foundation for future generations' research.
Among the works on Yuefu studies since the Han Dynasty, the earliest one should be Cai Yong's Cao Qin at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Most of the Guqin music recorded in this book are legends in the pre-Qin period, and some of them were created in the Han Dynasty, which is one of the most important materials for future generations to study the singing history of China's Guqin music since the pre-Qin period. During the Six Dynasties, Chen Ren and Shi Zhijiang's Record of Ancient and Modern Music is the most detailed record of the poems, singing and instrumental music of the Han Yuefu before the Tang Dynasty, which has important historical value. Later, there were Jason Wu's Interpretation of Yuefu Ancient Poetry and Liu Kui's Interpretation of Yuefu Poetry, and many important materials were also preserved. In addition, there are eighteen entries in Cui Bao's Notes on Ancient and Modern Music, which specifically discuss the techniques and origins of Yuefu music, and it is also a document that is highly valued by later generations.
After the Qing Dynasty, more and more scholars paid attention to the study of poetry in the Han Dynasty, and more and more achievements were made. There are some comments on China's poems in some traditional poems, such as Wang Fuzhi's Jiang Zhai Shi Hua, Ye Xie's Yuan Shi Hua, Wang Shizhen's Dai Shi Hua, Deyu's Sui Yuan Shi Hua, Yuan Mei's Zhao Wei's Fang and Liu Xizai's Yi Jian. Some anthologies of poetry, such as Chen Ruoming's Selected Poems from Caicaitang, The Source of Ancient Poems, Chen Ling's Notes on Poetry Comparing with Xing, Zhang Yugu's Appreciation of Ancient Poems and Wu Qi's Conclusion of Selected Poems, all have detailed comments on China's poems. In addition, there have been some works devoted to the study of Yuefu in the Han and Wei Dynasties, such as Nineteen Ancient Poems by Jiang Renxiu, A General Review of Chinese Poetry by Fei, Notes on Yuefu by Li Yindu, Yuefu Justice by Zhu Gan and Han Xiao Guansong Sentence Interpretation by Zhuang Shuzu. These works either have a special study on the pronunciation and meaning of Chinese poetry, or have a unique experience in the art of Chinese poetry, or have a deep understanding of literati's five-character poems, or have an in-depth study of some aspects of Yuefu poetry. It shows the progress of Qing people in the study of China's poems.