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The poem "Li Sao" is in the Chuci collection and is traditionally attributed to Qu Yuan [a] of the Kingdom of Chu, who died about 278 BCE.. Qu Yuan manifests himself in a poetic character, in the tradition of Classical Chinese poetry, contrasting with the anonymous poetic voices encountered in the Shijing and the other early poems which exist as preserved in the form of incidental ...
Jiu Ge, or Nine Songs, (Chinese: 九歌; pinyin: Jiǔ Gē; lit. 'Nine Songs') is an ancient set of poems. Together, these poems constitute one of the 17 sections of the poetry anthology which was published under the title of the Chuci (also known as the Songs of Chu or as the Songs of the South).
Alphabet song; Shiva Sutra, Sanskrit poem with similar function; Hanacaraka, the traditional arrangement of the letters of the Javanese alphabet; The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, commonly used English phrase with every letter in the Latin alphabet; Thousand Character Classic, Chinese poem with similar function, especially used in Korea
During the Warring States period, in the Chu Ci • Li Sao (Songs of Chu • Encountering Sorrow), it is recorded: [16] I command the god of clouds, Fenglong, to ride the colorful clouds, Seeking the whereabouts of Consort Mi. I take off my jade pendant, intending to make a vow. I send Jianxiu, a minister of Fuxi, to act as a matchmaker.
Wen Yiduo—a socialist poet and scholar later executed by the Chinese Nationalist Party—wrote in his Mythology & Poetry that, "although Qu Yuan did not write about the life of the people or voice their sufferings, he may truthfully be said to have acted as the leader of a people's revolution and to have struck a blow to avenge them. Qu Yuan ...
This is a list of the sections and individual pieces contained within the ancient poetry anthology Chu Ci (traditional Chinese: 楚辭; simplified Chinese: 楚辞; pinyin: chǔ cí; Wade–Giles: Ch'u Tz'u), also known as Songs of the South or Songs of Chu, which is an anthology of Classical Chinese poetry verse traditionally attributed to Qu Yuan and Song Yu from the Warring States period ...
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Li Bai, also known as "Li Bo" and "Li Po" [note 25] Tang poetry: Complete Tang Poems, others: 靜夜思 "Reply to Li Shuyi" Mao Zedong: Modern Chinese poetry: 1957: Mao Tsetung Poems "Return to the Field" [note 26] Zhang Heng: Han poetry: 歸田賦 "Cāntóngqì", or "Sandokai", in Japanese: Shitou Xiqian (Sekitō Kisen) Tang poetry [note 27 ...