A Lifetime of Mastering Tang and Song Poetry

Author: Zhao Yahu
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Lu Xun once famously said, "I believe all good poetry was already completed by the Tang Dynasty." Stepping into the hall of Tang poetry, you will feel a sense of liberation in your heart. Those wonderful and melodious lines of poetry will surely enchant you. If you can fluently recite and understand 100 Tang poems in a lifetime, that is enough. Why need 300 Song Ci?
The themes of Song Ci are diverse, and their forms are unrestrained, with equally varied styles. These selected Song Ci works, having weathered the storms of a thousand years, have only grown brighter. If you can understand, remember, and fluently recite 100 Song Ci in a lifetime, that is enough to travel the world.
The "One-Cent Reading Plan"
· Spend less money, read more books;
· Spend one dollar, buy two books;
· Spend one cent, remember one Song Ci;
· Spend one yuan, remember ten Song Ci;
· Spend ten yuan, remember 100 Song Ci;
· In a lifetime, reciting 100 Song Ci is enough to travel the world!
Tang poetry is suitable for all ages and tastes, easy to recite, and enjoyable for both the refined and the common. It not only brings spiritual pleasure and aesthetic enjoyment, refining one's character, but also evokes emotional resonance. These masterpieces cover seemingly everything—such as landscapes, frontier poems, parting poems, longing poems, travel poems, and poems of unrequited love. Their unrestrained artistic style, flexible techniques, and numerous widely celebrated verses have rightfully become the model for later poetry.
Over a thousand years of Ci literature have produced countless masterpieces. Song Ci allows us to savor and recite the essence of these works. Here, you can read the gentle and elegant Ci of Li Qingzhao and Yan Jidao, admire the bold and spirited Ci of Su Shi and Xin Qiji, and even taste other exquisite works with diverse styles. Some are refined, some are tragic, some are sorrowful, some are tender, and some are profound—each unique and breathtakingly beautiful.