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List Of Chinese Language Poets
The following is a list of Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the languages of China. __NOTOC__ A * Ai Qing B *Bai Juyi or Bo Juyi *Consort Ban *Ban Gu (32–92 A.D.)Minford, John, and Joseph S. M. Lau, ''Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations'', New York: Columbia University Press and Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press , 2000 * Bei Dao * Bei Ling * Bian Zhilin C * Cai Wenji * Cai Yong * Cao Cao 曹操 * Cao Pi * Cao Zhi * Cen Shen * Chen Sanli * Chen Minghua * Chen Nianxi * Chen Yinke * Chen Zi'ang * Chūgan Engetsu ( 1300– 1375), Japanese poet who wrote in Chinese, a figure in "Japanese Literature of the Five Mountains" (literature in Chinese written in Japan) * Cui Hao, Tang dynasty poet D * Dai Biaoyuan * Dai Wangshu * Dong Xiaowan * Du Fu 杜甫, the "Poet Sage" * Du Mu (803-852), Tang poet, official * Duo Duo E * Emperor Xuanzong of Tang F * Fei Ye 菲野 * Fenggan, "Big Stick", a legendary Buddhist monk. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poets
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral tradition, oral or literature, written), or they may also performance, perform their art to an audience. The work of a poet is essentially one of communication, expressing ideas either in a literal sense (such as communicating about a specific event or place) or metaphorically. Poets have existed since prehistory, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and periods. Throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed over time, resulting in countless poets as diverse as the literature that (since the advent of writing systems) they have produced. History Ancient poets The civilization of Sumer figures prominently in the history of early poetry, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Minghua
Chen Minghua (; born December 1950), also known as Chen Mo, is a Chinese poet, essayist and translator. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, chairman of the Qingyang Writers Association, and editor-in-chief of ''Beidou Magazine''. Biography Chen was born on December 1950 in Wuqingyuan, a small town in Zhengning County, Gansu. After graduating from high school in 1970, he joined the army, became a member of the Chinese Communist Party and served as an engineer for four years, during which time he began to study poetry. Since the age of 20, Chen loved literature and have a special liking for art of poetry Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in .... Chen began publishing his works in 1970 through domestic and foreign newspapers and magazines such as "Mass L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Du Mu
Du Mu ( zh, c=杜牧, p=Dù Mù, w=Tu4 Mu4; 803–852) was a Chinese calligrapher, poet, and politician who lived during the late Tang dynasty. His courtesy name was Muzhi (), and art name Fanchuan (). He is best known for his lyrical and romantic quatrains. Regarded as a major poet during a golden age of Chinese poetry, his name is often mentioned together with that of another renowned Late Tang poet, Li Shangyin, as the "Little Li-Du" (), in contrast to the "Great Li-Du": Li Bai and Du Fu. Among his influences were Du Fu, Li Bai, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan. Biography Du Mu was born in the Tang capital Chang'an (modern Xi'an) into an elite family, the Jingzhao Du clan, whose fortunes were declining. His grandfather was Du You, a minister at the Tang court and the compiler of the Tang Dynasty encyclopedia ''Tongdian''. He passed the '' jinshi'' ("Presented Scholar") level of the imperial civil service examination in 828 at the age of 25, and began his career as a bureaucr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Du Fu
Du Fu (; 712–770) was a Chinese poet and politician during the Tang dynasty. Together with his elder contemporary and friend Li Bai, Du is often considered one of the greatest Chinese poets of his time. His greatest ambition was to serve his country as a successful civil servant, but Du proved unable to make the necessary accommodations. His life, like all of China, was devastated by the An Lushan rebellion of 755, and his last 15 years were a time of almost constant unrest. Although initially he was little-known to other writers, his works came to be hugely influential in both Chinese and Japanese literary culture. Of his poetic writing, nearly fifteen hundred poems have been preserved over the ages. He has been called the "Poet-Historian" and the "Poet-Sage" by Chinese critics, while the range of his work has allowed him to be introduced to Western readers as "the Chinese Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Béranger, Hugo or Baudelaire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dong Xiaowan
Dong Xiaowan (1624–1651), also known as Dong Bai, was a Chinese courtesan and poet, also known by her pen name Qinglian. Dong has been described as the famous courtesan of her time, known for her beauty and talent in singing, acting, needlework and the tea ceremony. She lived in Qinhuai District of Nanjing. Similar to other courtesans of the late Ming Dynasty, Dong's moral qualities were emphasised among her admirers more than her talents. She is one of the ''Eight Beauties of Qinhuai'' ( zh, c=秦淮八艳) described by late Qing officials. The other famed courtesans of this group are Ma Xianglan, Bian Yujing (), Li Xiangjun, Liu Rushi, Gu Mei, Kou Baimen (), and Chen Yuanyuan. Biography Dong Xiaowan was born in the "Dong's Embroidery Shop" in Suzhou City. This is a well-known Suzhou embroidery shop in Suzhou. Because of the fine work, the business has always been prosperous. The Dong family is a Suzhou embroidery family. It has a history of more than 200 years. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dai Wangshu
Dai Wangshu (; March 5, 1905 – February 28, 1950), also Tai Van-chou, was a Chinese poet, essayist and translator active from the late 1920s to the end of the 1940s. A native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, he graduated from the Aurora University, Shanghai in 1926, majoring in French. He was closely associated with the Shanghai Modernist school, also known as New Sensibility or New Sensation School, a name inspired by the Japanese modernist writer Riichi Yokomitsu. Other members of the group were Mu Shiying, Liu Na'ou, Shi Zhecun, and Du Heng, whose Third Category thesis (that a writer could be on the left but remain independent) Dai defended against the hard line taken by the May Fourth Movement veteran Lu Xun. Early life and career Given the birth name Dai Chaocai (Chinese: 戴朝寀; pinyin: Dài Cháocǎi), Dai Wangshu was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. In 1923, he was admitted as a student into Shanghai University. Two years later, he would transfer to Aurora Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dai Biaoyuan
Dai Biaoyuan (; 1244–1310) was a Chinese litterateur of the early Yuan dynasty. He was able to write essays at seven, and his poems and essays were full of learned words. He obtained the jinshi degree during the late Southern Song period, then became a jiaoshou (professor, 教授) in Jiankang prefecture (建康府). In 1304, he was recommended as jiaoshou of Xinzhou (信州), but later resigned because of an illness. Dai's poems showed his commiseration with the sufferings of the people, like his ''Song of Vine-gathering'' (采藤行). His other works gave expression to his yearnings of the vanquished Song dynasty.Fan Ning. ''Dai Biaoyuan'', ''Encyclopedia of China'' (Chinese Literature Edition), 1st ed. English translations *Pgs. 15–20 in ''The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry (1279-1911)'', by Jonathan Chaves, Columbia University Press (1986), (note: his name is given in the Wade–Giles Wade–Giles ( ) is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. It deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cui Hao (poet)
Cui Hao (, 704?–754Wan: 1, his birth year of 704 is in doubt since he would have been somewhat young when he passed the imperial exam.) was a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty in China and considered a main early exponent of the regulated verse form of Classical Chinese poetry (also known as ''jintishi''). Biography Cui Hao was born in Biànzhōu (汴州, present day Kaifeng, Henan) and passed the imperial examinations in 723. He is known to have traveled extensively as an official, particularly between the years 723–744. He was known for three poetry topic - women, frontier outposts, and natural scenery. His life was initially conventional; along with Wang Wei, he was one of the perfectors of the '' jintishi'' form. Later, however, he acquired a reputation for disreputable personal behaviour and passed through several marriages. His later verse is similarly unconstrained. Poems Fifteen poems exist on the topic of women and fifteen poems exist on the latter two topics.Wan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Poetry
Japanese poetry is poetry typical of Japan, or written, spoken, or chanted in the Japanese language, which includes Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese, and Modern Japanese, as well as poetry in Japan which was written in the Chinese language or ''ryūka'' from the Okinawa Islands: it is possible to make a more accurate distinction between Japanese poetry written in Japan or by Japanese people in other languages versus that written in the Japanese language by speaking of Japanese-language poetry. Much of the literary record of Japanese poetry begins when Japanese poets encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang dynasty (although the Chinese classic anthology of poetry, ''Classic of Poetry, Shijing'', was well known by the literati of Japan by the 6th century). Under the influence of the Chinese poets of this era Japanese began to compose poetry in Chinese (''kanshi (poetry), kanshi''); and, as part of this tradition, poetry in Japan tended to be intimately ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1375 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events 1374: * April 23 – English writer Geoffrey Chaucer is granted a gallon of wine a day for the rest of his life by order of King Edward III of England in recognition of his services. Works published 1375: * Barbour composes '' The Brus'' under the probable commission of Robert II in Scotland. The poem is an innovative blend of vernacular romance and chronicle genres. Births Death years link to the corresponding "earin poetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1370: * Andrea da Barberino (died 1431), Italian writer and poet * John Lydgate (died 1451), English monk and poet * Felip de Malla (died 1431), Catalan prelate, theologian, scholastic, orator, classical scholar, and poet 1375: * Andreu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1300 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * 1308 ''(approx.)'': Dante Alighieri begins to write the ''Divine Comedy''. Works published 1303: * Handlyng Synne by Robert Mannyng of Brunne, a devotional work dealing with the theory and practice of morality 1307: * Guillaume Guiart, ''Branche des Royaux lignages'', revised version completed Births Death years link to the corresponding "earin poetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1300: * Chūgan Engetsu (died 1375), Japanese poet, occupies a prominent place in Japanese Literature of the Five Mountains 1304: * Petrarch (died 1374), Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest Renaissance humanists Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "earin poetry" article: 1300: * Guido C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chūgan Engetsu
, Japanese poet, occupies a prominent place in Japanese Literature of the Five Mountains, literature in Chinese written in Japan. Chugan's achievement was his mastery of this difficult medium, a signal of the ripening of Five Mountains poetry and prose in Japan. He was born in Kamakura of a family that claimed descent from Emperor Kanmu (r. 781–806). At age eight he entered the prestigious monetary of the Zen Rinzai sect in Kamakura as an acolyte. At twelve he was a disciple of Dokei. At this time Chugan began in earnest his Chinese studies, devoting himself to the ''Classic of Filial Piety'' and ''Analects''. He left for Kyushu hoping to travel to China, but did not succeed. After this disappointment he traveled to Kyoto and met the reclusive patriarch Kokan Shiren (1278–1346). In 1320 he realized his hopes for a journey to China that resulted in a seven-year study-tour of Zen masters and institutions. In 1332 Chugan returned in disgust to a Japan wracked by civil war and u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
