Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Chinese riddles stand in a tradition traceable to around the second century CE. They are partly noted for their use of elaborate visual puns on Chinese characters. According to Timothy Wai Keung Chan, 'the Chinese riddle originates in far antiquity and reached its mature form around the Warring States Period (475–221 BCE)'.
Summons of the Soul, Summoning of the Soul, or Zhao Hun (Chinese: 招魂, or, with old variant 招䰟; Pinyin: Zhāo Hún) is one of the poems anthologized in the ancient Chinese poetry collection, the Chu Ci. The "Summons of the Soul" consists of a four-part poem.
Jiang Yan (Chinese: 江淹; 444 – 505 [1]), courtesy name Wentong (文通) [2], was a poet and fu writer during the Northern and Southern dynasties [3] known for his imitation poetry, a prominent genre of the Six Dynasties era. [4] Jiang Yan stated that he loved the strange and different, and therefore sought new social trends and literary ...
Changsha" (Chinese: 沁园春·长沙) is a poem written by Mao Zedong in 1925. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was written in the shen yuan chun form for both Changsha and for his other major poem Snow . [ 3 ]
Landscape with Poems from An Album the Three Perfections, by Jiang Shijie. Qing poetry refers to the poetry of or typical of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). [1] Classical Chinese poetry continued to be the major poetic form of the Qing dynasty, during which the debates, trends and widespread literacy of the Ming period began to flourish once again after a transitional period during which the ...
The Fangyan [a] is a Chinese dictionary compiled in the early 1st century CE by the poet and philosopher Yang Xiong (53 BCE – 18 CE). [b] It was the first Chinese dictionary to include significant regional vocabulary, and is considered the "most significant lexicographic work" of its era. [5]
The term "Jian'an poetry" covers the final years at the end of the Han dynasty and during which the Cao family was rising, or risen, to prominence were known as the Jian'an era (196–220), the penultimate era of Emperor Xian: the following period is known as the Three Kingdoms era, due to the three kingdoms which divided up the Han dynasty, and war with one another for succession to the Han ...
Cover of a 1930 edition of the novel A page from chapter one of The Travels of Lao Can, in an edition collected by the University of Tokyo. The Travels of Lao Can (simplified Chinese: 老 残 游 记; traditional Chinese: 老 殘 遊 記; pinyin: Lǎo Cán Yóujì) is a novel by Liu E (1857–1909), written between 1903 and 1904 [1] and published in 1907 to wide acclaim.