清人对“诗”与“史”两种不同文体的差异有较为明确的认识。早在清初,学者张英即对作为考订的“史”和作为想象测度的“诗”进行了比较,他认为:“注者,征引事实,考究掌故,上自经史,以下逮于稗官杂说,靡不旁搜博取,以备注脚,使作者一字一句,皆有根据,是之谓注。意者,古人作诗之微旨,有时隐见于诗之中,有时侧出于诗之外,古人不能自言其意,而以诗言之,古人之诗,亦有不能自言其意,而以说诗者言之。是必积数十年之心思,微气深息, The Qing people have a clearer understanding of the differences between the two different styles of ”poems“ and ”history“. As early as the beginning of the Qing dynasty, Zhang Ying, a scholar, compared the ”Shi“ as a textbook and the ”Shi“ as a measure of imagination. He believed that: ”Note who cited the facts, , The following caught in the barbarian official miscellaneous said, extravagant searches, in order to footnote, make the author every word, are based on, is the so-called note .Intention, the ancients poetic micro-purpose, sometimes hidden in the poem, Sometimes, out of poetry, the ancients can not make their own decisions, but in the poem, the poem of the ancients also can not make their own meaning, but to say that the poet is a plot of dozens of years of mind, Micro-deep breath,