The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching, translated variously as the Book of Songs, Book of Odes, or simply known as the Odes or Poetry (詩;...
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oldest extant collection of Chinese poetry, the Classic of Poetry (Shijing), were initially lyrics. The Shijing, with its collection of poems and folk songs...
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In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in...
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to poetry and ancient music theory. An early Chinese poetics, the Kǒngzǐ Shīlùn (孔子詩論), discussing the Shijing (Classic of Poetry) In Africa, poetry has...
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Chinese classics (redirect from Chinese classic text)
specialists on the Classic of Poetry and the Book of Documents, which meant that these texts would have been exempted, and that the Book of Rites and the Zuo...
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the poetry of the Tang dynasty. The existence of classical Chinese poetry is documented at least as early as the publication of the Classic of Poetry (Shijing)...
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Confucius (redirect from Death of Confucius)
Classic of Poetry and the Classic of Music, which was said to be the sixth Confucian classic until it was lost during the Han dynasty. The Classic of...
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as the Classic of Poetry and as the Book of Songs or transliterated as the Sheh Ching) is a preserved collection of Classical Chinese poetry from over...
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thought to have been important in the traditional interpretations of the Classic of Poetry. Qing dynasty scholar Shao Yichen (邵懿辰, 1810–1861) proposed that...
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broadly to refer to the ancient poetry of China, chiefly the mostly anonymous works collected in the Confucian Classic of Poetry, the separate tradition exemplified...
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Old Chinese (redirect from Classic Chinese)
In addition, the rhymes of the earliest recorded poems, primarily those of the Classic of Poetry, provide an extensive source of phonological information...
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included in the Classic of Poetry (11th – 7th c. BCE). Spring and Autumn Annals mentioned that a lin (麟) was captured in the 14th year of Duke Ai of Lu (魯哀公)...
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Classical Chinese poetry has various characteristic forms, some attested to as early as the publication of the Classic of Poetry, dating from a traditionally...
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the I Ching and the Classic of Poetry having traditionally been attributed to him, as well as the establishment of the Rites of Zhou. His personal name...
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Qixi Festival (redirect from The Night of Sevens)
poem from the Classic of Poetry. The festival has variously been called the Double Seventh Festival, the Chinese Valentine's Day, the Night of Sevens, or...
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Lunar New Year (redirect from The second day of the Lunar New Year)
during which Chinese gathered with family and worship the moon. In the Classic of Poetry, a poem written during Western Zhou (1045 BC – 771 BC), by an anonymous...
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traditional Mao Commentary to the Classic of Poetry, the minor court hymn "Gather the Beans" (采菽; Cǎi Shū) is said to be a criticism of King You for squandering...
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The Book of Odes may refer to one of the following: The Chinese Classic of Poetry or Shi Jing The Christian Book of Odes (Bible) The Arabic Kitab al-Aghani...
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(The Flowers of Hell album) Odes, Victor Hugo's second poetry book Classic of Poetry, a book from ancient China that has been translated as Odes ODEs may...
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Chinese folklore (redirect from Folklore of China)
history became more relevant and accepted. The Classic of Poetry, the earliest known Chinese collection of poetry, contains 160 folk songs in addition to courtly...
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four-character per line style characteristic of the Classic of Poetry. Burton Watson describes Cao Cao as: "the only writer of the period who succeeded in infusing...
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dangerous politically. These were poetry (particularly the Classic of Poetry), history (Shujing and especially historical records of other states than Qin), and...
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Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese. University of Hawaii Press. p. 313 Classic of Poetry, "Airs of the States - Airs of Wey - Bo Xi". quote:「伯兮朅兮、邦之桀兮。」;...
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Shijing Classic of Poetry. The eventual emergence of the Silk Road and increasing contact between cultures led to the transmission and exchange of musical...
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are many variations of the story, the earliest-known reference to this famous myth dates back to a poem from the Classic of Poetry from over 2600 years...
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conquest of Shang following the Battle of Muye, and posthumously honored him as the founder of the Zhou dynasty. Many of the hymns of the Classic of Poetry are...
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Cataphract (category Types of cavalry unit in the army of ancient Rome)
need to be light as well as easily steered and trained." Classic of Poetry "Airs of Zheng: Men of Qing" quote: "駟介旁旁... 駟介麃麃... 駟介陶陶..." translation: "The...
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the lyrical imagery from the Classic of Poetry, and the detailed stories recorded in the Zuo Zhuan and the Records of the Grand Historian serve as particularly...
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form of governance or government. Wu wei appears as early as the Spring and Autumn period, with early literary examples in the Classic of Poetry. It became...
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Orion's Belt (redirect from Belt of Orion)
as: ...those three stars of the airy Giant's zone, That glitter burnished by the frosty dark. In China's Classic of Poetry, the asterism, under the name...
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