《咏史》这首诗,收入作者自编的《破戒草》,写于清道光五年十二月(1836年1月)。当作者客居昆山,目睹东南地区形形色色的“名流”们的卑劣行径,和清朝社会政治的黑暗,深有感慨,便以《咏史》为题,写下了这首讽刺现实的诗。在中国古代诗歌史上,以《咏史》名篇的,始于东汉班固;至晋朝左思,咏史诗有了新的变化。明朝胡应麟《诗薮》称: The poem “The History of Dai” was written by the author of his own book, “The Break of the Grass,” written in Qing Daoguang in December (January 1836). When the author settled in Kunshan and witnessed the despicable acts of various celebrities in the southeastern region and the darkness of the social politics in the Qing dynasty, he wrote a poem about the poem “The History of Shuo”. In the history of ancient Chinese poetry, the famous articles in “The History of Dai” began in the Eastern Han dynasty, and in the Jin dynasty, the poems in the history of the dynasty had new changes. Ming Ying Hu Yinglin’s “Poetry” said: