Did ancient people recite poems in dialects?

That's right. This is a dialect. Putonghua was unified after the liberation of New China, with Beijing accent as the standard, northern dialect as the basic dialect and typical modern vernacular as the grammatical norm. ".

Have you seen the movies after liberation? Many actors there use very unskilled Mandarin. It was not popular at that time. Now, we all read the text in standard Mandarin.

Because we live in such an environment, it sounds a bit awkward for the old movies at that time. Of course, ancient poetry recitation now sounds even more awkward. I don't even understand.