Chinese Poetry - Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den, Tang Poetry, Classical Chinese Poetry Forms, Poetry of Mao Zedong, Century Mountain, Shi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den, Tang poetry, Classical Chinese poetry forms, Poetry of Mao Zedong, Century Mountain, Shi, Rong Qiqi, Great Flood, Houji, Shigin, Renditions, Music Bureau, Zuiweng Tingji, Return to the Field, Song poetry, Xiaoxiang, New Songs from the Jade Terrace, Classical Chinese poetry genres, Guo Maoqian, Looking up at the Starry Sky, Six dynasties poetry, Tone pattern, Lottery poetry, The Latter Five Poets of the Southern Garden, Shan Xing, Xu Ling, Xiang River goddesses, Listening to Louis Chen's Zither. Excerpt: The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: Sh Shi shi sh sh ) is a famous example of constrained writing by Yuen Ren Chao (1892-1982) which consists of 92 characters, all with the sound shi in different tones when read in Mandarin. The text, although written in Classical Chinese, can be easily comprehended by most educated readers. However, changes in pronunciation over 2,500 years resulted in a large degree of homophony in Classical Chinese, so the poem becomes completely incomprehensible when spoken in Modern Standard Chinese or when written in romanization. The following is the text in Gwoyeu Romatzyh, Hanyu Pinyin, and Chinese traditional/simplified characters. Pinyin orthography recommends writing chinese numbers in Arabic numerals, so the number shi (" ") would be written as 10. To preserve the homophony in this case, the number 10 has also been spelled out in Pinyin. A standing stone lionMeaning in English: - Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den -In a stone den was a poet called Shi, who was a lion addict, and had resolved to eat ten.He often went to the market to look for lions.At ten o'clock, ten lions had just arrived at the market.At that time, Shi had just arrived at the market.He saw those ten lions, and using his trusty a...