On the origin and influence of the Five Word Poem of the late Han

This paper explores the origin of the five word poem by poets in the Late Han was derived from five word style of folk songs and ballads in the Han Dynasty.The poem,however,has been greatly developed in terms of phonology,antithesis,sentence pattern and language by poets who absorbed artistic nourishment from folk songs and then made appropriate changes on them.The five word poem,as a result,has retained the nature of folk songs,and represented the elegance of the poets in the Late Han as well.This practice has established a fine tradition of the history of poety and has exercised profound influence on the development of ancient Chinese poetry.