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Yuefu is one of the important genres of Chinese poetry. It emerged in the Han Dynasty, with the main content of reflecting social reality and expressing the aspirations of the people at the bottom of society. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, literati gradually began to imitate Yuefu, and Yuefu became one of the important genres created by later generations of literati. This book mainly selects Yuefu works from the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties.

"Selected Poems of the Two Han Dynasties" is an anthology of poems compiled by Mr. Cao Daoheng, dating from the Western Han Dynasty to the Jian'an period. The book is divided into three parts, including Yuefu folk songs, ancient poems without names and works with names, with a total of about 190 poems selected. The anthology not only includes the most popular works of ancient Yuefu ballad poetry, but also selects important representative works in the history of poetry, comprehensively reflecting the process and appearance of the development of poetry in the Han Dynasty for more than four hundred years, and filling the gap that previous anthologies lacked attention to the overall poetry of the Han Dynasty. Each poem has a solution, annotation, author introduction, etc. According to different situations. It explains the profound things in simple terms and is very suitable for modern readers of all levels to understand and study ancient literary works.