By Crystal Tai
With its 12 chapters named after the year of the 12 months, this booklet takes you thru an imaginary calendar yr to include one chinese language customized after one other in chronological order. As a month frequently includes 4 to 5 weeks, each one bankruptcy provides English translations of 4 or 5 well-known chinese language poems that painting the chapter's exact time of year.
Envision chinese language poetry as an arch of wisteria becoming from chinese language tradition to crown the culture's front. when you are one of many outsiders who savour the calligraphy of chinese language poems yet have no idea their meanings, permit the writer of this ebook free up the gate of language for you, and advisor you the entire approach into the guts of the cultural garden.
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