Monthly Archives: April 2009
Travel to Longmen Grottoes
Longmen Grottoes is located between the east and west cliffs in Longmen Valley, 12.5 kilometers south from Luoyang City, Henan Province. As the east cliff sits opposite to the west cliff and Yishui River runs between them, the two cliffs look like a stone gate, hence the nameYijue(the stone gate of Yishui River). After the [...]
Chinese Traditional Poetry
Chinese poetry is the most highly regarded literary genre in China. Traditionally, the broad sense of poetry includes shi, ci, qu, and also a kind of prose poem fu, all of which are in rhymed forms. Among them, shi, the poetry in a narrow sense is the earliest appeared form which cries for the feelings [...]
Modern Chinese Poems
Modern Chinese poem (“new poetry”) usually refers to an evolving genre of modern poetry rooted from the works in “the creation of poetry”, “Chinese Poetry” and other publications of Shanghai since the mid-and-late 40’s. In the course of development of Chinese literature, poetry (including shi, ci, qu and fu) has achieved a very high achievement. [...]
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