The greatest influence by "Short Preface to Poems" to the later generations is that it made the poem politicized and historical,and established the evaluation system taking praise and satire as its core.

Due to the influence of the confucian concept of "praise and satire" on literature,the relationship of literature reality and ethics is sometimes overstated,which also has an effect on the traditional views on Han Fu.

On changes of the ancient Chinese satirical novels;