Chinese Poems of Different Dynasties: A Classification and Appreciation. Volume on Lyrical Themes

Author: Zhang Zangguo
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: China is a country of poetry. In the 5,000 years of splendid and brilliant history and civilization of China, poetry and ci have emerged as a unique branch in the garden of arts, producing millions of outstanding works that are highly praised. The "Selected Poems and Ci of China Through the Ages" series categorizes the selected content into over 30 categories such as landscape, pastoral scenes, descriptive scenes, love, and so on. On this basis, they are further divided into five volumes: "Ode to Scenery," "Ode to Emotion," "Ode to Aspiration," "Ode to Reflection," and "Ode to Events." Additionally, to facilitate readers' appreciation, the annotations for each poem include the compilers' understanding of the entire poem, and at the end, there are introductions to the relevant authors. This book is the "Ode to Emotion" volume, compiling hundreds of enduring, widely acclaimed, and appreciably valuable poems and ci that express emotions. They are either elegant, tragic, sorrowful, tender, or profound.