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The poem is an example of fu, translated into English as "songs" or "description", which were often intended to be recited, rather than sung. [2] Specifically, it is a sufu ( 俗賦 ) or "vulgar fu ", the likes of which were inspired by the oral traditions of Buddhism and Taoism during the Tang dynasty. [ 3 ]
Xu Zhimo (徐志摩, Wu Chinese pronunciation: [ʑi tsɿ mu], Mandarin: [ɕy̌ ʈʂî mwǒ], 15 January 1897 – 19 November 1931) was a Chinese romantic poet and writer of modern Chinese poetry who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese language. [1]
Li Bai (Chinese: 李白; pinyin: Lǐ Bái, 701–762), also pronounced Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai (太白), was a Chinese poet acclaimed as one of the greatest and most important poets of the Tang dynasty and in Chinese history as a whole.
Yuefu are Chinese poems composed in a folk song style. The term originally literally meant "Music Bureau", a reference to the imperial Chinese governmental organization(s) originally charged with collecting or writing the lyrics, later the term yuefu was applied to later literary imitations or adaptations of the Music Bureau's poems.
The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching, translated variously as the Book of Songs, Book of Odes, or simply known as the Odes or Poetry (詩; Shī), is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC.
The earliest extant anthologies are the Shi Jing (詩經) and Chu Ci (楚辭). [2] Both of these have had a great impact on the subsequent poetic tradition. Earlier examples of ancient Chinese poetry may have been lost because of the vicissitudes of history, such as the burning of books and burying of scholars (焚書坑儒) by Qin Shi Huang, although one of the targets of this last event was ...
Single Princesses and Blind Dates (simplified Chinese: 单身公主相亲记; traditional Chinese: 單身公主相親記; pinyin: Dan Sheng Gong Zhu Xiang Qing Ji) is a 2010 Mainland China romance and comedy serial drama starring Taiwanese actor singer Jimmy Lin as the male lead, Chinese actress Zhao Liang as the female lead with Taiwanese actor, singer, model Dylan Kuo as the second male lead.
Xu Lizhi (Chinese: 许立志, 1990 – 1 October 2014) was a Chinese poet and factory worker.Xu worked for Foxconn and attracted media attention after his suicide, after which his friends published his collection of poems.