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Chinese literature during the Song period contained a range of many different genres and was enriched by the social complexity of the period. Although the earlier Tang dynasty is viewed as the zenith era for Chinese poetry (particularly the shi style poetry of Du Fu, Li Bai, Bai Juyi), there were important poetic developments by famous poets of the Song era, with the flourishing of the ci form ...
The poets of the Song dynasty drew on a long tradition of poetry in China, particularly upon forms prevalent in the Tang dynasty, together with influences from Central Asia.The ci form is especially associated with the Sung dynasty period shows signs of development toward the end of the Tang dynasty and the period of disunity immediately before the Song dynasty, especially as exemplified in ...
The list of the eight writers was first drawn up in the Ming dynasty. Zhu You [], a scholar during the early Ming, first collected the essays of the eight, but it was the late Ming scholar Mao Kun [] who coined the name in a book called "Compiled Transcriptions of the Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song"; the subsequent popularity of this book cemented the place of the eight as ...
The Song dynasty was the first in world history to issue banknotes or true paper money and the first Chinese government to establish a permanent standing navy. This dynasty saw the first surviving records of the chemical formula for gunpowder, the invention of gunpowder weapons such as fire arrows, bombs, and the fire lance.
Fu Bi (Chinese: 富弼; Wade–Giles: Fu Pi; 1004–1083), [1] courtesy name Yanguo (彥國), was a native of Henan Prefecture (modern-day eastern Luoyang, Henan).He was a statesman and literary figure of the Northern Song dynasty.
Wanli, Yang (1975), Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow: Poems from Sung Dynasty China by Yang Wan-Li (White Pine Press ed.), Weatherhill second, ISBN 1-893996-29-8 Pine, Red (2003), Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse, Copper Canyon Press, ISBN 1-55659-195-0
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