 The "gushi" form begins with the "Nineteen Old Poems".The "Nineteen Old Poems", sometimes shortened to "Nineteen Poems", and also known in English transliteration as "Ku-shih shih-chiu shih", refers both to a specific collection of poems as well as to the style in which those poems were composed.The original nineteen poems, in the ballad or old "yuefu" style, were collected during the Han Dynasty.