唐末五代文人基本上以儒家入世精神为基础,他们期望改造不安现实,为了避免动乱之中的恐怖氛围借历史题材创作了较为委婉的咏史诗。但这种咏史诗亦有着丰富的现实意义,他们要求借前代误国的事实作为反省、警戒的借鉴。此时期咏史诗表现出作者的入世精神和作者的个人感情,因此,分为讽刺当世的方面和作者的悲叹之感。

During the Late Tang Dynasty,intellectuals of Wudai with the confucian spirit of active inrolvement in public affairs. They borrowed historic themes to create a subtle “historic poetry” by which to dispel the atmosphere of terror.It was a poetry,however,full of social and political innuendo,in which episodes of past misrule were held up as an opportunity for self-reflection, and as a mirror to the present.Since the poetry manifests both the writers' spirit of public service and personal emotions,it can be divided into poetry of social satire and poetry of social satire and poetry of personal anguish.