Complete Tang Poems

Complete Tang Poems
Traditional Chinese全唐詩
Simplified Chinese全唐诗
Literal meaningComplete (collection of) Tang shi poetry
Hanyu PinyinQuán Tángshī
Wade–GilesCh'üan2 T'ang2-shih1 or Ch'üan T'ang shih
Reference abbreviations:

QTS (for Pinyin), ChTS (for other)

Alternate Chinese name = 御定全唐詩
The interest of the Kangxi Emperor in Tang Poetry is shown here by his calligraphic reproduction of a Tang poem, in praise of chrysanthemums.

Complete Tang Poems (or Quan Tangshi) is the largest collection of Tang poetry, containing some 49,000 lyric poems by more than twenty-two hundred poets. In 1705, it was commissioned at the direction of the Qing dynasty Kangxi Emperor and published under his name.[1] The Complete Tang Poems is the major reservoir of surviving Tang dynasty poems, from which the pre-eminent shorter anthology, Three Hundred Tang Poems, is largely drawn.

  1. ^ Yu (1994), p. 105.

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