Three Hundred Songs of the Song Dynasty

Author: Zhu Zumo
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: Ci poetry originated in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. It is a new form of lyrical poetry that can be set to music and sung. It combines the rhythm of music, complex rhyme schemes, varying sentence lengths, and sincere, moving emotions. It quickly became a beloved literary style and also represented the defining literary style of the Song Dynasty.