Bringing Wealth to Poetry County

SUIYANG County in north- ern Guizhou is known in the region as an incubator of poets. County records compiled from the early Yuan Dynasty (279-68) until today show that a great many Chinese poets emerged from Suiyang. Since the found- ing of the people…     

Different Outlooks on Life——Reflected in Chinese and Western Fisherman's Poems

Natural poems,especially fisherman’s poems,can always reflect different outlooks on life of Chinese and western poets.And such differences mainly result from cultural backgrounds.Under the influence of Christian belief,western fisherman’s poems attached more significance to the afterlife,while Chinese poets always express satisfaction in the unity of man and nature in this life,as a result of the influence of Confucianism and Taoism.     

The Power of Poetry

<正>Writing a poem might not be part of the development of young students,but if it makes them dream,learn more about literature,and get an understanding of the diversity of the world,then it has important meaning. SEVEN young poets from Suyu Hope Primary School in Huitong County,Hunan Province won applause from the audience when they read their poems at an award gala for the Lu Xun Literature Prize,held on November 20,2022 in Beijing.It was the first time the child poets had left their hom...     

Chinese Literature,Anyone?

Like many other ancient cultures,China possesses an impressive and celebrated literary heritage. The master poets of the medieval Tang Dynasty(618-907), for example, are rightfully known as some of the world’s best lyric poets; the adventures of the Monkey King and his company—as told in the classical Chinese narrative Journey to the West—have achieved a global following (in part due to TV adaptations and the like); and novels, short story collections and memoirs by expat Chinese authors living in the West have won major literary prizes and become international bestsellers.     

SOCIETY

正Birds' Paradise Egrets in the Xiangshan Forest Park in Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi Province, on May 18. It's currently bird breeding season.Red Tourism Expo Jiangxi and Hunan provinces will jointly hold a red tourism expo in October to display the latest developments in the industry.     

New Pursuit of Zhongshan, the Hometown of Sun Yat-sen

ZHONGSHAN city is located by the Pearl River in Guangdong Province, an hour’s drive southeast of the provincial capital Guangzhou. Formerly known as Xiangshan, meaning "fragrant mountain," it was renamed Zhongshan in the honor of founding father of the Republic of China Sun Yat-sen after he passed away in Beijing in 1925. With beautiful street scenes and a human-friendly urban design, Zhongshan has won many national and international awards for its living environment, in-     

Sound of Solitude

正China's premier poetess breaks the mold in pursuit of art Passion for poetry heated the art museum of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts on a cold winter night. Famous poets, old and young, as well as art lovers gathered from across China in the museum in Beijing on December 28, 2011. They recited their favorite poems, and shared their most subtle feelings of life and society.     

Celebrating the Publication of “Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry” in Spain

A reception was held by theCPAFFC on May 26 tomark the publication of the book"Anthology of ContemporaryChinese Poetry" in Sapin. It wasa friendly get-together of theChinese and Spanish poets.Hosting the reception, CPAFFCVice President Chen Haosuspoke about the cooperation be-tween the CPAFFC and the Fer-nando Rielo Foundation of Spainin the publication of the "An-thology of Contemporary Chi-     

Ancient Poetry Shines

正A new documentary introduces one of the greatest Chinese poets to the world A 7-year-old girl recites Welcome Rain on a Spring Night, a poem from the Tang Dynasty(618-907), in front of a thatched cottage in Chengdu, Sichuan Province in southwest China. "The good rain knows its season, when spring arrives. It brings life… Dawn     

Asian Field

WHEN British installation artist Antony Gormley was in Guangzhou last year, he commissioned a rather large force of artisans, and got to work creating Asian Field. He and 347 villagers from Xiangshan ranging in age from 7 to 70 set out to craft more than 120,000 hand-sized figures out of tons of the native red clay.     

Hope for Tomorrow

Du Fu, one of China’s most renowned poets who lived 1,200 years ago, once wrote, When will there be tens of thousands ofhouses, to shelter all the homeless and poor in this world?These words reverberated in the minds of many Chinese this Spring Festival as their thoughts went out to survivors of the devastating     

Mountain Resort of the Yellow Emperor

AFTER a trip to Huang- shan, China's five sa- cred mountains pale in comparison ..." goes the Chinese sayingHundreds, thousands and hundreds of thousands of people have journeyed to Huangshan every year for centuries tosee for themselves if the Yellow Mountain is, as rhapsodized by ancient poets, indeed the most beautiful in China. I had always thought of traditional Chinese paintings of Huangshan as phan- tasmagoric images created by artists en-chanted with its beauty whose mysti- cal de…     

An Unfaded Legacy

正A late poet's great granddaughter retraces his footsteps inthe U.S.to find a continued linkWhen Wen Ting walked into the International House in New York City for the first time in 2018,she felt a spiritual connection with her great grandfather Wen Yiduo,who used to live on the ninth floor of the building 95 years ago.Wen Yiduo (1899-1946),one of the prominent poets in early 20th century China,was among the students chosen by the government in 1922 to pursue fine arts and literature in the U.S.He went to Chicago first but his last stop in the U.S.was the Art Students League in New York.a private art school.     

Guilin, City of Fantastic Landscape and Splendid Culture

GUILIN City in south-west China's GuangxiZhuang AutonomousRegion is famed athome and abroad for itsmajestic scenery. The Chinese regard itas nature's most perfect landscape, andmany poets and literati and artists havecelebrated its beauty in their works.Fabulous LandscapeGuilin is a typical karst region. TheLijing River flows through the city andstrangely shaped mountains rise up fromits plains in their hundreds. The moun-tains are hollow, and laced with thou-sands of caves. In the 1970…     

Kanpai Society Founded In Beijing

To promote the development of Chinese kanpai, andcarry out cultural exchanges with the Japanese haiku poets, the Kanpai Society, a non-govern- mental organization that is spe- cially engaged in kanpai research and creation, was founded in Beijing on March 23, 2005. The leadership of the Society includes: Lin Lin who serves as honorary president, Chen Haosu adviser, Liu Deyou president, Yuan Ying, Lin Xiu, Tu An and Ji Peng vice presidents, Xu Jinping secretary general and Dong Zhenghu…     

The Mission of Poetry A Speech Made at the Meeting of Spanish Poets

Spain is a faraway but not un-familiar country to the Chi-nese poets, because it is thehomeland of Don Quixote and ithas produced the paintings ofPablo Picasso and Francisco Josede Goya, the ballads of Andalu-sia and the poems of FedericoGarcia Lorca.     

CPAFFC Delegation's Visit to Spain and Portugal

THE delegation of the Chinese People's Association forFriendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) led by itsvice-president Chen Haosu paid a visit to Spain and Portugalfrom October 21 to November 1, 1995. As four of the sixmembers of the delegation were poets, it was also called apoets' delegation. It was invited by the Fernando Rielo Foun-dation to visit Spain to celebrate the publication of the "An-thology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry".     

Beijing:A melting pot of old and new

China is truly a land of extremes: the mountains and vast deserts, prairies, fertile valleys, primitive forests and densely populated cites, with fabulous scenery that has inspired artists and poets for thousands of years.     

Manas Studies： a New International Discipline

In 1999, the publication of five works in the first series of＂China Epic Studies＂ marked a new phase in epic studies in China. The subject of one of those five books was Manas. Ms. Lang Ying from the epic study team of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is in charge of the research on Manas.     

Exhibition of Origin of Ancient Chinese Characters Held in Japan

It was rainy season in Kanazawa, the seat of the government of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan in the latter half of June. The flowers on both sides of the street were blossoming brightly in the drizzling rain. The exhibition "Origin of Ancient Chinese Characters" was mounted in the Ishikawa Pre-fectural Museum of Art in downtown Kanazawa on June 25.