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Si Kongtu's Twenty-four Poems is a monograph on ancient poetry aesthetics and poetry theory. This old poem was written by Si Kongtu in the late Tang Dynasty, but in fact the author has doubts. It inherits the aesthetic thoughts of Taoism and metaphysics, takes Taoist philosophy as the main thought and nature as the aesthetic basis, including many artistic styles and aesthetic artistic conception of poetry, and classifies the styles and realms created by poetry. The whole story is full of Taoist flavor. Tao is the noumenon and life of the universe, which produces all things in the world. Twenty-four poems are also twenty-four aesthetic realms of Tao. This is a theoretical work on poetry creation, especially the aesthetic style of poetry. It not only vividly summarizes and depicts the characteristics of various poetic styles, but also deeply discusses the formation of various artistic styles from the perspective of creation, which has made considerable contributions to poetry creation, criticism and appreciation. This made it not only received the attention of the poetic circles at that time, but also had a great influence later, becoming a classic in the history of China's literary criticism.