古代诗家在梳理乐府体咏史组诗的发展轨迹时,或追溯至元人杨维桢的《铁崖咏史乐府》,或以为李东阳的《拟古乐府》为首创,或以尤侗《拟明史乐府》为首倡,均不符合乐府体咏史组诗的发展实情。现存最早以乐府命题的咏史组诗是元人王恽的《读〈五代史记〉作古乐府五首》,首创之功,不容忽视。
When ancient poets combed the developmental orbit of history-themed poems of Yuefu style, they traced it back to Yang Weizhen' s Tieya History-Themed Poems or Li Dongyang' s Nigu Poems of Yuefu Style, or You Tong' s Nimingshi Poems of Yuefu Style, which was not consistent with the truth of the developmental history of history-themed poems of Yuefu style. The extant earliest histo- ry-themed poems of Yuefu style is Composing the Five Poems of Yuefu Style after Reading a Historical Record of the Five Dynasties by Wang Yun, a poet in the Yuan Dynasty, which can not be ignored for the sake of its inauguration.