New Poems on Yutai is a collection of poems compiled in the 6th century A.D. after Selected Works of Zhaoming, from The Book of Songs and Songs of the South to the Liang Dynasty. It has always been thought that it was compiled by Xu Ling in the mid-Liang Dynasty. There are 769 poems, including 8 five-character poems, one song 1, one five-character four-sentence poem 1, 10 * *. Except the ninth volume of Ren Yuege, which is said to be a work between the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the rest are all works from Han Dynasty to Liang Dynasty. The content includes the description and expression of men's and women's feelings, as well as all aspects of daily life, which depicts the rich emotional world of ancient women and also shows the profound social background and Chinese cultural connotation.
According to Xu Ling's Preface to the New Yutai, the purpose of compiling this book is to "select and record colourful love songs", that is, to mainly collect the feelings of men and women. From the extensive content, it is not as good as the Selected Works, which was written earlier. However, compared with the anthology, it has its own characteristics and is based on literature. For example, in the selection of temple poems that praise and praise, it is not as good as Selected Works. Those who carefully select every article and understand the language, but abandon the abstruse classics, such as Hanshu Nursery Rhyme Record and Huijindi Nursery Rhyme Record, all belong to this category. I also attach great importance to folk literature, such as China's ancient long narrative poem Peacock Flying Southeast, which is the first time I have seen this book. It attached great importance to the five-character and four-sentence short songs that appeared in the Southern Dynasties, and collected as many as one volume, which played a certain role in promoting the development of the poetic style of five-character quatrains in the Tang Dynasty. It doesn't record the works of life figures like the Selected Works, but selects the works of many poets after the mid-Liang period. These poems pay more attention to rhythm and antithesis than "Yongming Style", and we can clearly see the mature process of "Modern Style Poetry". Shen Yue's eight poems and other miscellaneous poems are included in the book, from which we can learn about the integration of poems and poems in the late Southern Dynasty and the formation of Song Style in Sui and Tang Dynasties. There are some selected poems in Yutai Fu that can be verified and supplemented, such as Cao Zhi's Abandoned Wife and Yu Xin's Qixi Poetry, which are missing from his anthology. The works of women writers such as Ban Jieyu, Bao and Liu Lingxian also depend on the preservation and circulation of this book.
Although Ode to a Jade Platform contains some unhealthy works, there are also many works that show sincere love and women's pain. Such as "Wild Grass on the Mountain", "Mulberry on the Stranger" and "Yu" all reflect certain social reality. "Peacock Flying Southeast" wrote the whole process of a feudal family tragedy in detail. All this shows that not all the poems recorded in "New Poems on Yutai" are erotic poems.