"Nineteen Ancient Poems" marks the maturity of literati's five-character poetry creation and occupies an important position in the history of Chinese poetry. "Ancient poetry" was originally a name given to ancient poetry by later generations. A batch of five-character poems were produced in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The author is no longer known, and later they were collectively referred to as "ancient poems". During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Xiao Tong, the prince of Liang Zhaoming, edited "Selected Works" and selected nineteen ancient poems. From then on, "Nineteen Ancient Poems" became the proper name. In the past, some people speculated that these ancient poems may have been written by Meicheng and Fu Yi of the Western Han Dynasty, or Cao Zhi and Wang Ji of Jian'an, but this is not credible. As we said in the previous section, five-character poems were extremely rare in the Western Han Dynasty. From the perspective of poetry development, it was impossible to achieve such an achievement. Cao Zhi and Wang Ji lived after the Huozhuo Rebellion, and Luoyang was burned and destroyed. However, Luoyang in "Nineteen Poems" is still "long yamen and Luojia alleys, with many mansions of princes, two palaces facing each other, more than a hundred feet between each other." ("Qingqingling Shangbai") After research, most of them It is believed that these poems were produced in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and their author is not one person.