Hu Ceng, a poet at the end of the Tang Dynasty, was the first poet in history to write 150 poems, which were compiled as epic poems. Every poem is titled as a place name, aiming at commenting on the gains and losses of ancient and modern times, focusing on discussion, which is not accidental and does not care about words. His epic poems are based on the dark reality of political corruption and untold sufferings in the late Tang Dynasty. Scholars have different opinions about the artistic value of his epic. Xin thinks that his poems are "mediocre", Wang Fuzhi's evaluation is "full discussion without poems", and "Summary of Sikuquanshu" is evaluated as "shallow interest and humble style", and the general literary status is low. On the other hand, Hu Ceng's epic poems are simple and easy to read, vivid and fluent, simple in style, loyal to historical facts and fair in argument. Therefore, from the Five Dynasties to the Ming Dynasty, Hu Ceng's epic poems were widely circulated as children's books, or published together with Mongolian studies books such as Thousand Characters and Qiu Meng.
Wang Zun is a contemporary of Hu Ceng. His Poems of the Whole Tang Dynasty consist of 59 poems, all of which are quatrains of seven characters, and their styles are similar to those of Hu Ceng. Most of his poems are nostalgic poems, expressing his views on historical issues. I have deep feelings for real life. It is of certain ideological significance to express one's feelings about the lack of talents through the experiences of historical figures and to warn the rulers by describing the stories of historical rise and fall.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, Zhou Tan wrote "Ode to Historical Poems", with 203 poems, followed by "Tan" to illustrate relevant historical events. Zhou Tan spoke directly as imperial academy, and told the monarch of the later Tang Dynasty with "Ode to Histories". Zhou Tan's epic literature is of low value, and Hu Zhenheng criticized it as "folly and evil" in Ming Dynasty. Not as widespread as Hu Ceng's epic.
There are also Dunhuang poems from the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties. The Collection of Ancient Sages compiled by Meng Shu consists of 80 seven-character poems, which are similar to the large-scale poems of Hu Ceng and Zhou Tan. This Dunhuang poetry material can be combined with historical poems, Mongolian books, poems and so on. , also opened the study of China Dunhuang literature variants (such as Meng Jiangnu variant, Wang Zhaojun variant, Wu Zixu variant). The early Japanese Heian period was the heyday of China's poetry and prose, including epics. The Heian period followed the old system of Nara era and set up a university in the palace. Among them, Yoshikawa Island (also known as the Road of Essays), which focuses on studying Historical Records, History of Han, History of Later Han, Selected Works and Erya, is the most concerned. The custom at that time was to hold a "competition banquet" for poetry after all the books were written. Sugawara no michizane's poems are representative poems of this period, including Banquet in Later Han Dynasty, Banquet in Han Dynasty and Banquet in Han Dynasty. Uncle Sun Tong who sings history, Sima Xiangru who sings history and so on.
At the end of Ping 'an, the "National Style Movement" rose, and China's poems, including epics, began to decline gradually. In the Kamakura era, the Kamakura shogunate paid more attention to martial arts than literature, and Chinese poetry declined. It was not until the Muromachi era that China's poetry rose again. In the late Edo period, China's poems flourished again, including many poems about objects. For example, Lai wrote many poems, many of which are Yuefu style, which runs through the patriotic thought of respecting the emperor, and also wrote Yuefu Collection "Japanese Yuefu", which later became the spiritual weapon of the Meiji Restoration at the end of the curtain. Cui Zhiyuan, a native of Silla, studied in the Tang Dynasty and served as an official. He had contacts with many poets in the Tang Dynasty and wrote many China poems, including poems about Jinxiong Palace Mountain City. The poet saw the former site of Gongshan City of Baekje Jinxiong (now Duke of Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea), remembered the war between Baekje and Koguryo and the later Luotang War, and wrote down his psychological panic and worry about the war.
After the demise of Silla, epics still occupied a certain position in Chinese poetry in the late Koryo dynasty, among which the works of Li Kuibao and Li Chengxiu were the representatives. Among more than 2,000 China poems written by Li Kuibao, more than 500 poems are about history. In addition to China's history, there are also Korean national history as the theme. Li Kuibao lived in the era of Korean military regime and expressed his ideal of serving the country by relying on epics. His most famous works include Wang Pian of Dongming, Three Hundred Rhymes of the National History of Scholars in Wudong Pavilion, and Forty-three Poems of Tang Xuanzong's Kaiyuan Tianbao. The representative work in Li Chengxiu's epic is Yuefu-style Rhyme of the Emperor.
In the Korean dynasty, in addition to Yuefu style and modern style poems, there were also local poems about poems written in the national language, which were different from China literature. The representative works of Yuefu style include 18, 19 century, Li Dongyang's "Ode to History" and Haidong Yuefu style poems imitated by Li Fuxiu. The later representative works include Twenty-one Ancient Poems by Liu Degong. The masterpiece of Yan Wen's epic is Song of Dragonflies, which is co-authored by Zheng Linzhi, An Zhi and Quan Bi. Most of the existing Chinese poems in Ryukyu are the works of two merchants in Ryukyu. Ryukyu gentry studied China classics since childhood, and their Chinese poems were often based on historical allusions of China. Ryukyu's epic is mainly nostalgic. Famous works include Tai Su Nostalgia by Zeng Yi (by the sand, near the clouds) and two nostalgic poems by Cheng Shunze (favorite of famous guardians).