New Curriculum Standard Required Reading Series -- 40 Ancient Chinese Poems and Prose for High School Students

Author: Zhang Yiwen
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This book includes 30 ancient Chinese poems, ci poems, and qu poems. From the four-character poems in the Book of Songs to the Li Sao by Qu Yuan as representative of the Sao style; from ancient-style poems and Yuefu poems to five-character and seven-character regulated poems and qu poems, the styles are diverse, the content is rich, and both the ideological and artistic qualities are strong. There are poems that express the grievances of abandoned women, such as A Lament; there are lyrical poems that reflect the poet's political stance, such as Li Sao; there are poems that use the beautiful legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to depict the pain of love, such as The Weaver Girl; there are poems that express the urgent desire to recruit talented individuals and the broad vision of achieving greatness, such as The Drunken Song; there are poems that describe singing and drinking in a drunken manner, venting frustrations, and using alcohol to forget sorrows, such as Bringing in the Wine; there are poems that depict the rulers' reckless military campaigns and mass conscription, bringing heavy disasters to the people, such as The Ballad of the War Wagons; there are poems that praise historical events, poems of love, and poems that describe landscapes and express emotions—too numerous to list. The prose section includes 10 essays. All the selected poems and essays in this book are accompanied by introductions and annotations to help students understand the content and make it easier to memorize these timeless masterpieces.