48+ Chinese Nature Poems

In honor of NationalPoetryMonth some of our favorite submissions from the 2015 Readers Digest Poetry Contest touch on the many wonders of the natural world.

Chinese nature poems. Chinese Proverb Seek fish on a tree. Chinese poems play a great role in Chinese history and Chinese literature. Chinese Proverb Sometimes you lose a forest through the trees. Li Bai 701-762 Li Bai liked to write in a free form poetry like that of more ancient times.

Chinese Proverb Point at the mulberry and abuse the pagoda tree. Once a tree falls the monkeys on it will scatter. Behind redden doors stink wine and meat. Du Fu 杜甫 712- 770 is widely acknowledged as the finest of the classical Chinese poets.

Peach Blossom at Dalin Temple. The Chinese poem 月夜 Moonlit Night by Liu Fangping was collected in The 300 Tang Poems during the Tang Dynasty 618 907. They have famous poets such as Li Bai Du Fu Bai Juyi who produced poems that have great impact on the Chinese culture. Thoughts in the Silent Night Li Bai.

772- 846 uses very simple language and is therefore particularly accessible for the beginner. Among them I would like to introduce the haiku created by the famous haiku poets. Many poems contain allusions to people and events from Chinese history and that makes understanding these poems a challenge to non-Chinese. His poems have a particularly sensitive feeling for humanity.

Hence learning Chinese poems is one of the best ways to understand the Chinese culture. Li Bai Du Fu and Wang Wei are the three most admirable poet of their times. Remembering South of the River. This short poem uses only a few words and is quite concise in wordage but it is endowed with the passion that stimulates the bottom of ones heart and arouses an intense feeling of nostalgia very naturally.

Yu fled to Taiwan at the age 21 along with the Nationalists who were defeated by the Communist Party in the Chinese civil war and the homesickness of the mainland across the Taiwan Strait had since been inscribed in his mind. In this post we feature five of the most popular poems that everyone in Chinese knows. The sun shine the moon shine. Since the establishment of haiku in the Edo period so many poems about nature have been created.

Walking from Xiamen and Looking at the Blue Sea. On the Lake 2 Bai Juyi. Below youll find the Chinese text of the poem with the pronunciation an English translation and a recording in Mandarin Chinese.

Translating Chinese poems into English poses all sorts of problems and many eminent American and English poets for example Ezra Pound have spent considerable time developing fine translations. But upon the road die frozen men. So Id like to introduce five Chinese ancient poems to you. These poem can describe the poets feelings and nature with just a few words.

Perhaps more than 1400 of his poems survive and his poetry is still read and appreciated by modern Chinese people. Regret for Peony Flowers. These will help you to think of haiku poem ideas. The Tang Dynasty was the golden age of Chinese poem when Chinese poems prospered the most.

Song of Sunset on the River. Here is a famous couplet. Thoughts in the Silent Night is one of the most well-known Chinese poems written by Li Bai. The earliest Chinese poetry begins with the Shih Ching a collection of 305 poems of varying length drawn from all ranks of Chinese societyThe title Shih Ching is usually translated in English as The Book of Songs or sometimes as The OdesShih means song-wordsChing can mean classic or traditional or in the context of literature it means writings or scripture.