Introduction and Content of Poems of a Thousand Families

Poems of a Thousand Families is a collection of poems widely circulated throughout the ages. The poems selected in the anthology are all metrical poems and quatrains, most of which are easy to understand, poetic and natural, fluent in language and easy to recite. They are the enlightenment works for teenagers to learn modern poetry, and also the favorite reading materials for classical poetry lovers. There are several genres and versions of Poems of a Thousand Families. Originally an anthology compiled by Liu Kezhuang in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was always called Selected Poems of Thousand Immortals in Tang and Song Dynasties. Liu Kezhuang is known as the "laity in Houcun", so this poem is also called "Poems of a Thousand Families in Houcun". The book * * * 22 volumes, limited to metrical poems and quatrains. It is divided into 14 categories: seasonal poems, seasons and climate, climate, day and night, flowers, bamboo forests, astronomy, geography, palaces, utensils, music, animals, insects and personality, which are selected from the poems and songs of the Tang and Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty respectively, among which Song poems are the most.