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300 Tang Poems: Chinese Poetry Anthology

This document is an anthology of 320 poems from the Tang dynasty in China, considered the golden age of Chinese poetry. It includes poems from some of the greatest Chinese poets of that era, such as Wang Wei. The excerpt shown is a 3 line English translation of one of Wang Wei's poems titled "A Farm-House on the Wei River". The poem describes a rural scene of cattle and sheep returning home at dusk, an old man leaning on his staff, and farmers returning from their fields.

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300 Tang Poems: Chinese Poetry Anthology

This document is an anthology of 320 poems from the Tang dynasty in China, considered the golden age of Chinese poetry. It includes poems from some of the greatest Chinese poets of that era, such as Wang Wei. The excerpt shown is a 3 line English translation of one of Wang Wei's poems titled "A Farm-House on the Wei River". The poem describes a rural scene of cattle and sheep returning home at dusk, an old man leaning on his staff, and farmers returning from their fields.

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TANG SHI 300 TANG POEMS

An anthology of 320 poems. Discover Chinese poetry in its golden age and some of the
greatest Chinese poets. Tr. by Bynner (en).
Tangshi I. 1. (16)

CHINESE CLASSICS
& TRANSLATIONS

WANG WEI
A FARM-HOUSE ON THE WEI RIVER Franais / English
Welcome, help, notes,
introduction, table. Chinese on / off

Shi Jing table


Vertical

The Book of Odes Horizontal

Lun Yu table

Translations
Bynner
The Analects
Hervey
Daxue table
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Great Learning
Zhongyong table

Doctrine of the Mean
San Zi Jing table
Three-characters book
Yi Jing table In the slant of the sun on the country-side,
The Book of Changes
Cattle and sheep trail home along the lane;
Dao De Jing table
And a rugged old man in a thatch door
The Way and its Power
Leans on a staff and thinks of his son, the herdboy.
Tang Shi table
There are whirring pheasants? full wheat-ears,
300 Tang Poems
Sun Zi table
Silk-worms asleep, pared mulberry-leaves.
And the farmers, returning with hoes on their shoulders,
The Art of War
36 Ji table Hail one another familiarly.
Thirty-Six Strategies ...No wonder I long for the simple life
And am sighing the old song, Oh, to go Back Again!
Bynner 16

Tang Shi I. 1. (16)


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