Chinese Poems of Different Dynasties: A Classification and Appreciation. Volume on Aspiring to Ambition.

Author: Zhang Zangguo
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: China is a country of poetry. In the five thousand years of splendid and brilliant historical civilization in China, poetry has emerged as a unique gem in the garden of arts, producing millions of outstanding works that are deeply admired. The "Selected Poems and Lyrics of China Through the Ages" series categorizes the selected content into over 30 categories such as landscapes, pastoral scenes, descriptive scenes, and love poems. On this basis, it is further divided into five volumes: "Ode to Scenery," "Ode to Emotion," "Ode to Ambition," "Ode to Reflection," and "Ode to Events." Additionally, to facilitate readers' appreciation, the annotations for each poem include the compilers' interpretations of the entire poem, and a brief introduction to the relevant authors is appended at the end. This volume is "Ode to Ambition," compiling hundreds of enduring and widely celebrated poems that are both appreciable and practically valuable. They are either elegant, heroic, sorrowful, tender, or profound.