Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the languages of China.
Ai Qing
Bai Juyi or Bo Juyi
Consort Ban
Ban Gu (32–92 A.D.)
Bei Dao
Bei Ling
Bian Zhilin
Cai Wenji
Cai Yong
Cao Cao 曹操
Cao Pi
Cao Zhi
Chen Sanli
Chen Yinke
Chen Zi'ang
Chūgan Engetsu (1300–1375), Japanese poet who wrote in Chinese, a figure in "Japanese Literature of the Five Mountains" (literature in Chinese written in Japan)
Cui Hao, Tang dynasty poet
Dai Wangshu
Dong Xiaowan
Du Fu 杜甫, the "Poet Sage"
Du Mu (803-852), Tang poet, official
Duo Duo
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
Fenggan, "Big Stick", a legendary Buddhist Monk. He was an associate of the famous legendary poets Han Shan and Shih Te.
Gao Qi, Ming dynasty poet
Gidō Shūshin
Gong Zizhen
Gu Cheng
Gu Taiqing
Guan Daosheng
Guo Moruo, poet, historian, archaeologist
Hai Zi 海子, modern mystic poet
Han Yu 韩愈
Han Shan, "Cold Mountain"
He Zhizhang
Huang Tingjian 黄庭堅 (1045–1105)
Huarui Furen
Huang Zongxi
Hou Ma
Ido Reizan
Jao Tsung-I
Jia Dao 贾岛
Jia Yi
Jiang Yan
Ke Yan
Kokan Shiren
Kong Shangren
Li E
Li Bai (Li Po), the "Poet Immortal"
Li He
Li Qiao
Li Qingzhao
Li Shangyin
Li Yu (Li Houzhu)
Liang Desheng
Lin Huiyin
Liu Yuxi
Liu Zongyuan
Lu Guimong
Lu Ji
Lu You
Lu Yu
Lu Zhaolin
Lu Zhi
Luo Binwang
Ma Rong
Mang Ke
Mao Zedong
Mei Yaochen, Song dynasty poet
Meng Haoran, Tang dynasty poet
Mi Heng
Mu Dan
Natsume Sōseki, Japan's modern composer of Chinese poetry
Nalan Xingde
Nie Gannu
Ouyang Xiu
Ouyang Jianghe
Pan Yue
Pan Lei
Pan Xichen
Pei Di
Pi Rixiu
Qian Zhongshu
Qiu Jin
Qu Yuan, State of Chu poet
Quan Deyu
Qiao Ji
Ruan Ji
Sang ke(桑克)
Shangguan Wan'er(上官婉儿)
Shen Shanbao(沈善宝)
Shen Yue(沈约)
Shen Quanqi(沈佺期)
Shi Zhi"index finger"(食指,郭路生)
Shih-Te, "Pick-Up"(拾得)
Shih-wu, "Stonehouse"(石屋)
Shivaza Iasyr, wrote in the Dungan (Soviet Hui people) dialect(雅斯尔·十娃子 or 亚瑟尔·十娃子)
Shu Ting(舒婷)
Sima Xiangru(司马相如)
Song Yu(宋玉)
Su Shi (苏轼)
Su Liming(苏历铭)
Su Xiaoxiao(苏小小)
Shang Ting (商挺)
Tao Qian, also known as Tao Yuanming
Wang Anshi
Wang Bo
Wang Can
Wang Changling
Wang Rong
Wang Wei (8th-century poet), the "Poet Buddha"
Wang Wei (17th-century poet)
Wang Yi-Ch'eng, poet
Wang Yun (Qing dynasty)
Wei Yuan
Wei Zhuang
Wen Tingyun
Wen Yiduo
Wu Cheng'en, Ming novelist, poet
Wu Jiaji
Wu Zao
Xi Chuan
Xi Du
Xi Kang (or Ji Kang)
Xi Xi
Xiao Gang (Emperor Jianwen of Liang)
Xie Lingyun
Xie Tiao
Xin Qiji
Lady Xu Mu
Xu Jiang
Xu Zhi Mo 1895-1931, melancholic poet of early 20th century
Xu Zihua
Xue Tao 768-831
Yang Jiong
Yang Lian
Yang Wanli
Yang Xiong
Yao Shouzhong
Yao Sui
John Yau
Chia-ying Yeh
Yi Sha
Yu Xin
Yu Xuanji
Yuan Hongdao
Yuan Zhen
Yuan Zhongdao
Zang Di
Zhai Yongming
Zhang Heng
Zhang Hua
Zhang Ji (poet from Hubei)
Zhang Ji (poet from Jiangnan)
Zhang Jiuling
Zhang Xu
Zhang Yaotiao (Tang courtesan poet)
Zhao Luanluan (Yuan dynasty poet)
Zhao Luorui
Zhang Zhidong
Zheng Min
Zhang Xiaoxu
Zheng Yunduan
Zhu Shuzhen
Zhuo Wenjun
Zuo Si
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