Besides Du Fu, there are some poems written by poets, also called "the history of poetry".
"Writing current affairs in Yuefu began with Cao Gong." At the end of Han Dynasty, Cao Cao was good at drawing lessons from folk songs and wrote current affairs in the old Yuefu saying. For example, "Good Li Xing" and "Autumn Dew Trip" were originally a kind of miscellaneous elegy, but later they were changed into a five-character style, which was used to "show the deep disaster brought to the people by the warlords' melee at that time. As "Hao" wrote, "Bones are exposed in the wild, and there are no crows in a thousand miles. There are hundreds of people left behind, and their thoughts are broken. " It's totally true. Ming people's evaluation of these poems is: "The record of the end of Han Dynasty is also a history of poetry." (Xing's "The Return of Ancient Poems")
Lu You, a great poet in the Song Dynasty, called himself "60-year-old ten thousand poems". He has been engaged in writing for a long time, and his poems are numerous and rich in content, the most prominent of which is the national contradiction, the main contradiction of the times. A strong patriotism runs through all his poems like a red line. At the same time, the style of Lu's poetry is also close to Du Fu's, so it has won the reputation of a generation of "poetry history". Famous articles include Guan Shanyue, The Book of Wrath, Showing Children, etc.
Wen Tianxiang was a famous national hero and an outstanding patriotic poet in the late Southern Song Dynasty. In his later poems, he learned from Du Fu, described the sufferings of the nation and the course of his own struggle, and showed lofty national integrity, such as Song Zhengqi, Crossing Lingdingyang and Jinling Post, which has always been called "the history of poetry".
Wang Yuanliang, a contemporary court musician of Wen Tianxiang, wrote many documentary poems with his own personal experience. For example, Ten Drunken Songs recorded the process of the court's surrender to the Yuan Army in the Southern Song Dynasty and the situation after the surrender. Ninety-eight Poems in Huzhou describes in detail his experience of going to Yanjing with the Sixth Palace in the Southern Song Dynasty. Twenty Poems of Yuezhou tells the tragic situation that Yuan soldiers went south and ravaged half of the rivers and mountains in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, the poet Liu Chenweng called Wang Yuanliang's poems "the history of poetry" in the Song Dynasty.
Wu was a famous poet in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. He wrote many works reflecting current events during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which contained the ups and downs of his life experience, and was also called "the history of poetry". For example, "Garden Song" reflects some historical facts about the demise of the Ming Dynasty through Chen Yuanyuan's related deeds, and six poems such as "Journey to Luzhou" imitate Du Fu's "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells" and truly show the sufferings of the people.
Huang Zunxian was the most outstanding bourgeois reformist poet in the late Qing Dynasty. His poem "More News on Current Affairs" (Chen Yanshi's Poems) reflects the historical facts such as the Sino-French War, the Sino-Japanese War and Eight-Nation Alliance's entry into Beijing at that time, and has a strong spirit of the times. Poems such as Mourning for Pyongyang, Mourning for Lushun, Weeping for Weihai, and Song of General Liao reflect the progress of the Sino-Japanese War in a timely and comprehensive manner, castigate the shameful behavior of the Qing Dynasty that it was corrupt and incompetent and lost without a fight, expose the aggressive face of Japanese imperialism, and show the poet's patriotic passion. Liang Qichao once spoke highly of Huang Zunxian's poems, saying that "poetry is also an official, and poetry history is also." ("Ice Room Poetry")