Tang Shi San Bai Shou (Three Hundred Tang Poems

Tang Shi San Bai Shou (Three Hundred Tang Poems) ADD TO FAVORITE PRINTER FRIENDLY EMAIL TO A FRIEND  TITLE: YOUR NAME: FRIEND'S EMAIL:   Tang Shi San Bai Shou (Three Hundred Tang Poems) Tang Shi San Bai Shou, Three Hundred Tang Poems, were compiled by the Qing scholar Sun Zhu, also... Quan Song Ci (The Whole Collection of Song Poetry) The ci(词, lyric) is very different from the shi(诗, poem) type. Today the term ci simply means...

Tang Shi San Bai Shou, Three Hundred Tang Poems, were compiled by the Qing scholar Sun Zhu(孙洙), also called Hengtang Tui Shi(衡塘退士, Retired Master of Hengtang), and published in 1764. Sun was not very pleased with the poems of the anthology Qian Jia Shi(千家诗, A Thousand Master's Poems) because of its lack of educational spirit. His own compilation became so popular that it is enclosed in a corpus of books that are found in almost every household still today. Sun's intention was to elect poems that serve to cultivate the character of the reader. Today, there exist some new compositions of three hundred Tang poems containing different opera, because the Qing time attitude to poetry as educational instrument has changed until today. In the following lines, some poems of different styles, written by famous people, are listed with their translation, created by Witter Bynner. Sun Zhu has divided his anthology into six different styles (below A to F), comprising old style poems (gushi, 古诗), regular poems (lvshi, 律诗) and short poems (jueju, 绝句), both with five and seven syllable verses. Between the particular sections, poems in the style of the old Han Music Bureau (yuefu, 乐府) are inserted that were still in use during the Tang Dynasty but gradually lost their original character and disappeared during the latter half of Tang. Exemplarious translation: 五言古诗, Old style poems with five syllables 李白: 月下独酌 花间一壶酒，独酌无相亲。 举杯邀明月，对影成三人。 月既不解饮，影徒随我身。 暂伴月将影，行乐须及春。 我歌月徘徊，我舞影零乱。 醒时同交欢，醉后各分散。 永结无情游，相期邈云汉。 Li Bai(701-762) "Drinking Alone with The Moon" From a pot of wine among the flowers, I drank alone. There was no one with me - Till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon To bring me my shadow and make us three. Alas, the moon was unable to drink And my shadow tagged me vacantly; But still for a while I had these friends To cheer me through the end of spring... I sang. The moon encouraged me. I danced. My shadow tumbled after. As long as I knew, we were boon companions. And then I was drunk, and we lost one another. ... Shall goodwill ever be secure? I watch the long road of the River of Stars.

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