Chinese literature: Ancient Chinese Fables
A fable is “a short story devised to convey some useful lesson, an apologue”. A distinctive feature of the f...
A fable is “a short story devised to convey some useful lesson, an apologue”. A distinctive feature of the f...
The writing of such stories began in the Wei and Jin Dynasties (220-420), when various writers, influenced by the alchem...
Scholars and critics have written about the special features of Chinese mythology. Among the most obvious are: Mythical ...
In style and art of writing, both early and later mythical stories are superb. Classical Chinese is extremely concise. A...
Shijing (The Book of Songs) is the earliest collection ofChinese poems including 305 poems of the Zhou Dynasty (1122-256...
Chinese Poetry Literature is conventionally divided into four classes: poetry, ci , ge or songs, fu. Poetry proper has t...
The Gongyangzhuan 公羊传 is a commentary to the Confucian Classic Chunqiu 春秋 “Spring and Autumn Annals”. It is ...
The Zuozhuan 左传 “Commentary of Zuo” is a commentary and parallel version to the chronicle Chunqiu 春秋 “...
The Chunqiu 春秋 “Spring and Autumn Annals” is the chronicle of the state of Lu 鲁 between 722 and 479. It is t...
Xu zhimo was one of the modern famous romantic poets of 20C. He was given the name of Zhangxu (章垿) and the courtesy name...