Chinese Poetic Masterpieces Through the Ages: A Classification and Appreciation - The Volume of Lyrical Reflections

Author: Wang Tiezhu, Zhang Zangguo (editors)
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Publishing 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 lyrics, as a rare bloom in the garden of arts, have produced millions of outstanding works that are highly praised. The "Chinese Poems and Lyrics Through Dynasties: Classified Reading" series categorizes the selected content into over 30 categories such as landscapes, pastoral scenes, descriptive scenes, love, and more. 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 editors' interpretations of the entire poem are included in the annotations for each piece, and at the end, there are introductions to the relevant authors. This book is the "Ode to Reflection" volume, compiling hundreds of enduring, widely acclaimed, and appreciably valuable reflective poems and lyrics. They are either elegant, heroic, sorrowful, tender, or profound.