本辞典收录340余位诗人的作品约1200首。这些诗歌上起金元，下止近代。元明清时代，中国封建社会发展到新的阶段，产生了一系列重大的历史性社会变革，不少生活内容、文化思想，给诗人提供了丰富的创作源泉；同时，五、七言，古、近体作为成熟的诗歌体裁，仍然具有强大的生命力，诗人们运用这些体裁去反映自然、社会以及人生真伪、善恶、美丑，佳作累累，美不胜收。(This thesaurus collects about 1200 pieces of works by above 340 poets. These poets range from Jin-Yuan dynasty to modern times. In the Yuan-Ming-Qing times, Chinese Feudal Society developed into a new stage when a series of significant historical social reforms occurred, the various life contents and cultural thoughts of which provided poets abundant sources of creation. Meanwhile, mature styles of poem like five-character style, seven-character style, pre-tang and modern style still have mighty vitality. Taking advantage of these styles to reflect nature, society, and the truth & false, goodness & evilness, beauty & ugliness of life, the poets wrote countless masterpieces which were too perfect to be absorbed all at once. )