Abstract: Zhang Han , a poet of Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty, created a large number of excellent poems. Although he did not get a bachelor's degree in his life , he gave up his career and became the lead.ing poet of Yunnan literary world in the Jiajing period by virtue of his own poems , and he has the reputa-tion of “Poet of the Country", and he created a variety of poems , of which historical poems occupy a certain portion of his poems, and they have an important value in the research. This paper analyzes ZhangHan's historical poems and explores their connotations and aesthetic characteristics. His poems are closelyrelated to the social background of the Ming Dynasty, the family environment of his famous family , andhis personal travel experiences. ln these poems, he utilizes ancient events and monuments to show hisknowledge of history , and through speaking of historical figures and monuments , he hopes that the coun-try will learn a lesson, reflecting his worldly feelings as a Confucian scholar. He also utilizes historicalfigures to symbolize himself and laments his own disappointing life. In addition, Zhang Han's poems onhistory have unique historical characteristics, using  Confucianism” to judge historical figures and events, and striving for faimess and impartiality in historical theory. He expresses a transcendent state ofmind and his hermit's thoughts through his poems on history and his poems reflect the hardships ofpeople's lives and incorporate humanistic concems, and show a somber and sad stylistic characteristic ,which is more similar to Du Fu's spirits in terms of content and artistic pursuit. His poems on history has a high literary value and significance of the times.

Key words: Zhang Han, historical poetry, aesthetic characteristics