How to Read Chinese Poetry A Guided Anthology

72 t He Han Dy na s t y Allow the people of the mountains and marshes to come here. 使山澤之民得至焉 (shĭ shān zé zhī mín dé zhì yān) R ...

f u P oe t ry : an anC i e n t-s t y l e r Ha P s oDy 73 Gives free rein to the many ministers 恣羣臣 (zì qún chén) To present a ...

74 t He Han Dy na s t y in the year 137 b.C.e., to have an audience with Emperor Wu in the capital. It seems that one day Empero ...

f u P oe t ry : an anC i e n t-s t y l e r Ha P s oDy 75 In the midst of merriment and intoxication with wine, the emperor sudde ...

76 t He Han Dy na s t y elaborate spectacles, including hunts, military reviews, pageants, and ceremonies. Most of these events ...

f u P oe t ry : an anC i e n t-s t y l e r Ha P s oDy 77 Li Shou would have been unable to count them all. The riches of the gro ...

78 t He Han Dy na s t y ........... To the north 其北則 (qí bĕi zé) In full summer it is enveloped in freezing cold that cleave ...

f u P oe t ry : an anC i e n t-s t y l e r Ha P s oDy 79 Swelling and surging, troublous and turbulent. 滂濞沆溉 (phang-phjiət gang ...

80 t He Han Dy na s t y Han dynasty recorded 120 fu under his name.30 Regrettably, none of his works survives. According to his ...

f u P oe t ry : an anC i e n t-s t y l e r Ha P s oDy 81 notes In the Zhou period, various states were designated as “defensive ...

82 t He Han Dy na s t y Zhi Yu, “Wenzhang liubie lun” (Treatise on Literature Divided by Genre), in Zhongguo lidai wenlun xuan ...

f u P oe t ry : an anC i e n t-s t y l e r Ha P s oDy 83 Gong Kechang 龔克昌, ed. Quan Han fu ping zhu 全漢賦評注 (Complete Han Fu, with ...

The yuefu poetry of the Han dynasty, conventionally referring to all poems reput- edly collected by the Han Music Bureau, is one ...

Sh i P oe t ry : musiC bur e au P oe m s 85 dates back to the pre-Qin periods. However, as early as the Southern Dynasties, Shen ...

86 t He Han Dy na s t y Hanging high are quadrangular frames, 高張四縣 (gāo zhāng sì xuán) 4 Music fills the courtyard. 樂充宮庭 (y ...

Sh i P oe t ry : musiC bur e au P oe m s 87 This poem adopts the imperial “we,” speaking in the persona of an emperor. Setting t ...

88 t He Han Dy na s t y C 4. 3 Behold, the Grand Unity 惟泰元 (wéi tài yuán) Behold, the Grand Unity is the most esteemed, 惟泰元尊 ...

Sh i P oe t ry : musiC bur e au P oe m s 89 beliefs in the power of this star. In this poem, he is described as the creator of t ...

90 t He Han Dy na s t y One of the best-known secular yuefu poems is “We Fought South of the Walls,” a poem that contains antiwa ...

Sh i P oe t ry : musiC bur e au P oe m s 91 but other commentators take it as a content word meaning “bridges.” Also, many trans ...