Chinese Poems Through the Dynasties: A Classification and Appreciation - Volume on Scenery

Author: Zhang Zangguo, Wang Tiezhu (editors)
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Features: China is a country of poetry. In the five thousand years of splendid and brilliant history and civilization of China, poetry has emerged as a unique branch in the garden of arts, producing millions of outstanding works that are highly praised. The "Chinese Poems and Lyrics Through the Ages: Classified Reading" series categorizes the selected content into over 30 categories such as landscapes, rural scenes, descriptive poems, and love poems. These categories are further divided into five volumes: "Poems on Landscapes," "Poems on Emotions," "Poems on Ambition," "Poems on Reflections," and "Poems on Events." Additionally, to facilitate readers' appreciation, the annotations for each poem include the editors' interpretations of the entire poem, followed by introductions to the relevant authors. This volume, "Poems on Landscapes," compiles hundreds of enduring and widely beloved poems on landscapes, which are both artistically appreciable and practically valuable. They range from elegant and sublime to tragic, sorrowful, tender, and profound.