In a Yǒng Wù Shī, anything in nature, such as a mountain, a river, a flower or a tree can be described, chanted and written about. To compare to the poet himself, both of the thing and the author are integrated together totally. Usually, the author writes his Yǒng Wù Shī to express his attitude towards life, beautiful wishes, philosophy of life and sentiment.
Yǒng Wù Shī is a wonderful poem in Chinese traditional poetry. The ancient Chinese enjoyed chanting things, to describe things through poetry. According to statistics, in the Quan Tang Shi -- Complete Tang Poems, there are 6,021 Yǒng Wù Shī in all of the 49,403 (in another version there are 42,863) Tang poems, it is 8.2% of the total. The interesting thing is that 3,556 of them were written in the Latter Tang. Therefore, I think that maybe people enjoyed writing Yong Wu Shi, because they liked to express their true thoughts and feelings indirectly in complex political situations.
In this publication, Ting Zhu -- The Bamboo in the Courtyard is a Yǒng Wù Shī.
-
Sequence:
Time Content Love, Kinship and Friendship
关雎 — Singing Ospreys
七步诗 — The Quatrain of Seven Steps
寄扬州韩绰判官 — Send to the Official Han Chuo in Yang Zhou
夜雨寄北 —Send a Poem Letter to Someone in the North on a Rainy Night
Landscape
敕勒歌 — Chi Le Song
一望二三里 — Have A Look Over, Two, Three Miles
柏林寺南望 — Look Over the South From the Bailin Temple
江雪 — Fishing on a Snowy River
Philosophy
赋新月 — Ode to the New Moon
Travel and Farewell
赠汪伦 — Present the Poem to Wang Lun
静夜思 — Missing my Hometown in the Peaceful Night
绝句(江碧鸟逾白) — On the Blue River, Birds Seem More White
Song of the Spring
晚春 — Late Spring
Encouragement
庭竹 — The Bamboo in the Courtyard
梅花 — Plum Blossoms
Appendix
My Endless Gratitude -Feb,2017 in the USA
The Appendix ( Nov 16, 2017 in China) of My Endless Gratitude -Feb,2017 in the USA
About Yong Wu Shi – Poems Which Chant About Things
About Yong Wu Shi – Poems Which Chant About Things
Yǒng means chant; Wù means thing or matter; Shī means poem, poetry. Yǒng Wù Shī is a poem that expresses people’s aspirations, emotions or humanity through chanting about a thing / object.In a Yǒng Wù Shī, anything in nature, such as a mountain, a river, a flower or a tree can be described, chanted and written about. To compare to the poet himself, both of the thing and the author are integrated together totally. Usually, the author writes his Yǒng Wù Shī to express his attitude towards life, beautiful wishes, philosophy of life and sentiment.
Yǒng Wù Shī is a wonderful poem in Chinese traditional poetry. The ancient Chinese enjoyed chanting things, to describe things through poetry. According to statistics, in the Quan Tang Shi -- Complete Tang Poems, there are 6,021 Yǒng Wù Shī in all of the 49,403 (in another version there are 42,863) Tang poems, it is 8.2% of the total. The interesting thing is that 3,556 of them were written in the Latter Tang. Therefore, I think that maybe people enjoyed writing Yong Wu Shi, because they liked to express their true thoughts and feelings indirectly in complex political situations.
In this publication, Ting Zhu -- The Bamboo in the Courtyard is a Yǒng Wù Shī.