Yuefu Poetry was compiled by Guo Maoqian in Song Dynasty. "Yuefu", originally the name of the organ in charge of music, was first established in Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and there were Yuefu organs in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Its specific tasks are making music scores, collecting lyrics and cultivating musical talents. Lyrics come from two sources: one is written by literati; Part of it is collected from the people. Later, people called the poems collected by Yuefu organs Yuefu, or Yuefu poems and Yuefu songs, so Yuefu changed from the official name to the poem name. There are 100 volumes of Yuefu poems compiled by Guo Maoqian, which is by far the most complete collection of Yuefu songs. It mainly collects Yuefu songs from Han, Wei, Tang and Five Dynasties, as well as ballads from pre-Qin to the end of Tang Dynasty, with more than 5,000 songs. It has a wide collection, all kinds have a general order, and every song has a solution. It is another famous collection of poems that summarizes China's ancient Yuefu songs after The Book of Songs and Wind.
Yuefu Poetry Collection divides Yuefu poetry into 12 categories, such as Jiaomiao Ci, Sheyan Ci, Advocacy Ci, Hengchui Ci, Harmony Ci, Qing Shang Ci, Dance Ci, Qin Ci, Miscellaneous Ci, Modern Style Ci, Miscellaneous Ci and New Yuefu Ci. Among them, it is divided into several small categories, such as cross blowing. Among these different kinds of music, Jiao Miao Qu and She Yan Qu belong to the movements used by the court, and their ideological content and artistic skills are not satisfactory. There are also some works with poor artistic value in advocacy songs and dance songs. But on the whole, most of its collections are excellent folk songs and poems written by literati with old Yuefu poems. Among the existing collections of poems, Yuefu Poetry is an important collection of poems written earlier, and it is also the most complete one among Yuefu poems in past dynasties.