The author of "Nineteen Ancient Poems" is a lower-middle-class scholar with high cultural accomplishment and deep feelings for real life. He absorbed the nutrition of Yuefu folk songs in art, accepted the realism of The Book of Songs and the fine tradition of Lisao in expression methods, and formed his own unique artistic style, which became a model of early lyric poetry in the history of China literature. Many papers summarized the artistic features of Nineteen Ancient Poems from the aspects of artistic form, creative attitude, lyrical way and rhetorical skills. Ni Qixin summarized the style of Nineteen Ancient Poems as follows: the artistic conception is simple, the metaphor is imaginative, the description skills are matched with the scenery, such as plain language, and the language features are characterized by a unique style of expressing one's mind directly, being sincere and euphemistic. The language style of Nineteen Ancient Poems is embodied in the highly generalized and expressive perfect language. It has the advantages of simple and natural Yuefu folk songs, which are qualitative but not wild, shallow but not exposed. Many papers repeated and highly praised vague and ambiguous emotional expressions. Zhao Minli's views are very representative. He summarized the unique artistic style of Nineteen Ancient Poems as follows: it is sincere art and a model of literati lyric poetry. There are both the innocence of Yuefu songs and the elegance of literati poems, but they are not too rough or too carved. They are simple and natural, pure and mysterious. In the process of pursuing unimpeded expression of ideas, they naturally integrate their cultural literacy into all emotions. [37]
(4) The position of Nineteen Ancient Poems in the history of literature.
When discussing this issue in the history of China literature in recent 20 years, most of them compare it with The Book of Songs, Songs of the South and folk songs of Han Yuefu, or focus on the depth of their social life, or analyze their social foundation, political thought and cultural atmosphere. Or comment on their creative situation, language characteristics, artistic style, etc. To sum up, Nineteen Ancient Poems established its position in the history of China's poetry in the following four aspects: First, it inherited the fine tradition since the Book of Songs and prepared for the emergence of Jian 'an's poetic style. The second is an important turning point in the transition from folk literature to literati creation prosperity in Han Dynasty. Thirdly, it developed five-character ancient poetry into an independent system. Fourthly, it laid a solid foundation for the further development of five-character poetry. Its appearance marks the maturity of literati's five-character poems. Its brand-new poetic form and mature artistic skills laid a solid foundation for the development of five-character poems, which came into being in the history of China's poetry development.