Thirty-eight Poems by Chen Ziang in Tang Dynasty. Thirty-eight poems about meeting are all five-character ancient poems, with four rhymes, six rhymes and eight rhymes, and the number of words varies. Their contents can be divided into three categories: (1) quoting ancient historical facts and satirizing the present with the ancient. This kind of poems can be said to have inherited Zuo Si's Eight Poems about Epics. (2) The theme does not involve historical facts, but only expresses one's feelings. This kind of poems can be said to be the inheritance of Ruan Ji's Eighty-two Poems about Huai and Yu Xin's Twenty-seven Poems about Huai. (3) it doesn't involve historical facts, and it doesn't clearly express its feelings, but between the lines, it seems to reflect some current events. This kind of poems can be said to inherit the antique drinking style of Tao Yuanming, which we call "feelings". But these three categories are not clear, and chanting history and feeling are sometimes confused; Poems chanting for the bosom sometimes cite some historical facts as metaphors.

Chen Ziang wrote these 38 poems, which directly inherited the ancient customs of the Han and Wei Dynasties. Judging from their origin, they can be said to be retro. However, his poems swept away the old style, set a model for the five-character ancient poems in Tang Dynasty and became a pioneer. As far as his influence is concerned, it can also be said to be innovation. Just like Han Yu's later ancient prose movement, the slogan was retro-"the decline of eight generations of literature", but the effect was to create a new kind of prose.