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In other words, Chinese poetry refers to poetry written or spoken in the Chinese language. The various versions of Chinese poetry, as known historically and to the general knowledge of the modern world, include two primary types, Classical Chinese poetry and modern Chinese poetry.
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 ...
The poem was written in the 1930s by the Chinese linguist Yuen Ren Chao as a linguistic demonstration. The poem is coherent and grammatical in Literary Chinese, but due to the number of Chinese homophones, it becomes difficult to understand in oral speech. In Mandarin, the poem is incomprehensible when read aloud, since only four syllables ...
Poems of a Thousand Masters (千家诗; Qianjia Shi) is a 13th-century Chinese poetry anthology primarily comprising classical poems from the Tang and Song dynasties. It was originally titled " A selection of poems by a thousand distinguished poets of the Tang and Song dynasties ” compiled by Liu Kezhuang (1187-1269) and subsequently ...
Since its conception during the Tang dynasty, "Quiet Night Thought" remains one of Li Bai's most famous and memorable poems.It is featured in classic Chinese poetry anthologies such as the Three Hundred Tang Poems and is popularly taught in Chinese-language schools as part of Chinese literature curricula.
Spring Lament" (春怨) is a five-word jueju (五言绝句) poem written by Jin Changxu (金昌绪) during the late Tang dynasty. This is historically the only poem attributed to him. This is historically the only poem attributed to him.
Chang Hen Ge (Chinese: 長恨歌; lit. 'Song of Everlasting Regret') is a literary masterpiece from the Tang dynasty by the famous Chinese poet Bai Juyi (772–846). It retells the love story between Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and his favorite concubine Yang Guifei (719–756). This long narrative poem is dated from 809. [1]
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 ...