Tang Poetry 唐 詩

Click on the photo at left and you can hear a famous poet (hah! Kidding, just me) reading a Tang poem about a quiet forest scene.

Tang poetry was to meant to evoke evoke beautiful scenes and emotions with short very descriptive verses. Poets would ideally write while drinking at night in beautiful moon lit lakes with lanterns about them. I remember being at one such spot this summer and I can see how it would inspire a poem.

Tang poetry was written during the Tang dynasty in China (618-907 AD). We got this three book set for our children this summer. It is has really beautiful pictures which is of course half the fun, but our daughter really seems to enjoy memorizing the poetry. For some real information on Chinese poetry, in both English and Chinese, click here. I'll try to get this up on the links section soon.