Nineteen Ancient Poems first appeared in Selected Works, and the author and name are unknown, so it is impossible to verify them. So every poem is titled with the first sentence. The language of Nineteen Ancient Poems is simple and natural, the description is vivid, the artistic style is natural, and the philosophical artistic conception of Taoism and Confucianism is everywhere, which is called "the crown of five words" by Liu Xie.
The content of Nineteen Ancient Poems is mostly sadness, no hatred, hesitation, frustration and depression. This is because at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was social unrest and political chaos, and the lower-class literati wandered away without official doors. Nineteen Ancient Poems was born in such an era.