"Ancient Poetry Chronicles" is also called "Poetry Chronicles". A collection of Han poetry from the Pre-Qin Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty. One hundred and fifty-six volumes. Edited by Feng Weina of Ming Dynasty. It was written in the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing's reign in the Ming Dynasty (1557).
Feng Weina, also known as Ruyan, also known as Shaozhou. He was born in the seventh year of Zhengde (1512) in the Ming Dynasty and died in the sixth year of Longqing (1572). A native of Linqu, Shandong Province, he was a Jinshi in Jiajing, and served as the envoy to Zuobu, Jiangxi Province. He resigned as Guangluqing and published "Feng Guanglu Collection".
"Ancient Poems" is the earliest extant collection of poetry before the Tang Dynasty. It is divided into four parts: the first collection, the main collection, the outer collection and the other collections. The ten volumes of the first collection collect ancient pre-Qin poetry, divided into thirteen genres such as songs, ballads, miscellaneous poems, poems, and poetry. All the poems recorded are marked with their source and writing background; the main collection of one hundred and thirty volumes includes collections from Han, Wei to Sui poetry is arranged in the order of dynasties. Each dynasty is arranged in the order of emperor, family, unexamined person, fangwai, lady, and unknown person. The families are arranged in the order of era. The folk songs and music houses of each dynasty are listed in At the end of this dynasty, the four volumes of the external collection collect poems about immortals and ghosts from ancient novels and notes; the twelve volumes of the special volume collect poetry comments related to this book and one volume of Zhiyi, which collects the fragments of one or two rhymes that cannot be written into a single article. sentence. Writers and poems whose dates cannot be determined are appended at the end. Each writer's works are arranged in the order of four, five, six and seven character poems in the first Yuefu period. There are only a few works, which is not the norm. The Book of Songs and Songs of Chu were not selected as a whole. The most outstanding feature of "Shi Ji" is that it is complete. The so-called "Chronicle" is the name of historians who summarize and record events. Therefore, the chronology is based on the preface and the number is on the outline. Although the record is vast and coherent, one record is established and one generation is included. The documents are ready." Almost all the poetry from ancient times to the Sui Dynasty is contained in this book. There is no need to look elsewhere to trace the origin of poetry. This book is one of the three main reference books compiled by Zhang Pu of the Ming Dynasty, "A Collection of One Hundred and Three Masters of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties", and "Poems of the Three Kingdoms, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Han Dynasty" compiled by Ding Fubao is based on this book. Due to the large volume, it is inevitable that there will be inaccuracies, inconsistencies and omissions in the book. Feng Shu in the Qing Dynasty had a volume called "Shi Ji Kuang Mi", which corrected the missing parts and made it more detailed and accurate.
There are original engravings by Feng Weina, engravings by Zhen Jing in the 39th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1560), and engravings by Wu Guan, Xie Bi, Lu Bi and Yu Ben during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. There are thirty-six volumes of catalogue, and Feng Xun reprinted it in Guanzhong in the 41st year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1613). "Shiji Kuangmi" has a Zhaiben version with insufficient knowledge.