CHINeSE

LITERATURE/POEM
FADERON, LADY LYN
FADERES, JOYCE
OBJECTIVES:

At the end of the lesson, the student will be able to:

a) Define Chinese literature
b) Understand the Chinese poem
c) Differentiate what kind of poem being used
d) Adapt the writing technique of the Chinese poem.
Chinese Literature

• According to Pang(2021) that Chinese literature is a vast subject

that spans thousands of years, it has the serious literature was
composed using formal written language that is called classical
Chinese
• Chinese literary works include fiction, philosophical and religious
works, poetry, and scientific writings
Chinese poem

• According to Jiang (2021) that the Chinese poetry is been a

favorite genre for thousand of years, also the poetry that written a
thousand or more years ago was simpler and about common things
like love, romance and nature that people appreciate and the
Chinese poetry is a character-based poets.
Kinds of Chinese Poetry

•Shi 詩
•Ci 詞
•Ge 歌
•Qu 曲
•Fu 賦
Kinds of Chinese poetry

• Shi 詩
-composed of couplets. They are poems of two
more coupled lines. The two lines of a couplet
usually rhyme and match rhythmically and
complement each other tonally. Modern Mandarin
only has five tones, but ancient languages usually
had more, so the tonal rhythms are generally lost.
Kinds of Chinese poetry

• Ci 詞
-described as poems that have patterns of syllables and tonal
patterns. In making a Ci poetry, a poet chooses words that fit a
specific pattern. These patterns may have once been part of a song.
But the music has been lost. There are various patterns that
provided affective settings for various effects or moods.
Kinds of Chinese poetry

• Ge 歌
The word "ge" means song. Ge poems are the words to a song
that can be sung. There were folk songs as well as songs composed
by the literate and educated composers.
Kinds of Chinese poetry

• Qu 曲
When the Mongols conquered China and established the Yuan Dynasty
(1279-1368), they brought with them their own style of music and forms
of entertainment. They especially liked to watch shadow puppet theaters
that were puppet plays of little manipulated figurines and puppets
illuminated by a lamp so that the shadows fell against a screen. It is
thought that the form of operatic drama of the Yuan Dynasty imitated
their shadow play theaters. The style of music and song in the operas was
called Yuan Qu or Mongol Music. The songs from the operas and popular
songs were a poetic style called Qu that was also popular in later eras.
The poetic style is freer of form.
 Kinds of Chinese poetry

• Fu 賦
A fifth major style of poetry is called "Fu." These are descriptive
poems that contain both prose and couplets. These were popular
about 1,500 years to 2,000 years ago. Often poets included rare or
unusual written characters from preceding eras in their poems.
Poems
 Home
Great trees in the south
Give me no shelter,
And women loitering by the Han
Leave me cold.
O Han too deep for diving,
O Kiang too long for poling
Faggots, brambles,
I cut them with a will
But those girls facing home,
I should like to feed their horses
O Han too deep for diving,
O Kiang too long for poling
Faggots, artemisia,
I cut them with a will
But those girls facing home,
I should like to feed their colts. -
O Han too deep for diving,
O Kiang too long for poling!
ANSWERING VICE-PERFECT CHANG
by Wang Wei

As the years go by, give me but peace,

Freedom from ten thousand matters.
I ask myself and always answer,
What can be better than coming home?
A wind from the pine-trees blow my sash,
And my lute is bright with the mountain-moon.
You ask me about good and evil?
Hark, on the lake there's a fisherman signing!
WHAT SHOULD A MAN WANT?
By Wang Chi

"Tell me now, what should a man want

But to sit alone sipping his cup of wine?“
I should like to have visitors come to discuss philosophy
And not to have tax - collectors coming to collect taxes;

My three sons married into good families,

My five daughters provide with steady husbands;
Then I could jog through a happy five score years,
Craving no cloud - ascent, no resurrection.
WHAT SHOULD A MAN WANT?
By Lady Chwang Keang

All day the wind blew strong,

The sun was buried deep.
I have thought of him so long, so long,
I cannot sleep.

The clouds are black with nights,

The thunder brings no rain
I wake and there is no light,
I bear my pain
ANXIETY OF A YOUNG LADY TO GET MARRIED
author unknown

Ripe, the plums fall from the bough: Will not apply in vain!
Only seven tenths left there now!
Ye whose hearts on me are set, No more plums upon the bough!
Now the time is fortunate! All are in my basket now!
Ye who are with ardour seek,
Ripe, the plums fall from the bough; Need the world but freely speak!
Only three tenths left there now!
Ye who wish my love gain,
 IN ANBSENCE
by TU FU

White gleam the gulls across the darkling tide,

On the green hill the red flowers seem to burn;
Alas! I see another spring has died
When will it come - the day of my return?
 THE RED COCKATOO
by Po Chu

Sent as a present from Annam
A red cockatoo.
Coloured like the peach - tree
blossom,
Speaking with the speech of
men.
And they did what is always done
To the learned and eloquent
They took a cage with stout bars
And shut it up inside.
 A CICADA

Pure of heart and therefore hungry,

All night long you cry in vain
With a final, broken, indrawn breath .
Among the green, indifferent trees…
Knocking about like a piece of driftwood,
Letting my garden fil with weeds,
I bless you for true advice
To purify my life again.
Thank
you!