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In Chinese poetry, a duilian (simplified Chinese: 对 联; traditional Chinese: 對 聯; pinyin: duìlián ⓘ) is a pair of lines of poetry which adhere to certain rules (see below). Outside of poems, they are usually seen on the sides of doors leading to people's homes or as hanging scrolls in an interior.
An early instance of Chinese setting [23] is a 1941 [Note 1] audio recording titled "Long-Name-No-Can-Say", adapted and narrated by Paul Wing. [24] 1941 was in a time of strong anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States. [25] A boy named "Nicki Nicki Tembo No So Rembo Ooma Moochi Gamma Gamma Goochi" is fat and mean.
The Five Chinese Brothers is an American children's book written by Claire Huchet Bishop and illustrated by Kurt Wiese. It was originally published in 1938 by Coward-McCann . The book is a retelling of a Chinese folk tale, Ten Brothers .
The anecdote in chapter 4 of this text claims Cao Pi was jealous of Cao Zhi's artistic talents and sought to execute him. It gives the following account of the poem's origin: Cao Pi summoned Cao Zhi and issued an ultimatum to his little brother, asking him to produce a poem in the time it took to walk seven steps, failing which he would be ...
The Thousand Character Classic (Chinese: 千字文; pinyin: Qiānzì wén), also known as the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines of four ...
The 1920s Chinese literary works were characterized by a similar concurrence between the writer or protagonist's individual struggles, and the nation's dilemma. Chinese intellectuals further transformed the self-revelation function of naturalism into a national awakening one. [ 7 ]
"Wang Liulang" (Chinese: 王六郎; pinyin: Wáng Liùláng), also translated as "Sixth Brother Wang", is a short story by Pu Songling first published in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. The story follows a Chinese fisherman's friendship with the title character , a water spirit who has to drown a human being in the river in which he is ...
Reply to Li Shuyi (Chinese: 答李淑一) is a poem written on May 11, 1957 by Mao Zedong to Li Shuyi, a friend of Mao's first wife Yang Kaihui and the widow of the executed Communist leader Liu Zhixun. In the poem, "poplar" refers to Yang Kaihui, whose surname Yang means "poplar", and who also had been executed; and "willow" is the literal ...