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Chinese qiu si librivox multilingual poetry 005 ma zhiyuan
Ma Zhiyuan (Chinese: 馬致遠, c. 1250–1321), courtesy name Dongli (東籬), was a Chinese poet and celebrated playwright, a native of Dadu (present-day Beijing) during the Yuan dynasty.
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- Chinese qiu si librivox multilingual poetry 005 ma zhiyuan
- Fall thoughts by ma zhiyuan
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Among his achievements is the development and popularizing of the sanqu (散曲) lyric type of Classical Chinese poetry forms. The poem "Autumn Thoughts" (秋思) from the book '东篱乐府' is the most widely known of his sanqu poems.
Fall thoughts by ma zhiyuan
Works
Ma Zhiyuan's sanqu poem "Autumn Thoughts" (秋思), composed to the metric pattern Tianjingsha (天淨沙), uses ten images in twenty-two monosyllables to preamble a state of emotion, and is considered as the penultimate piece in Chinese poetry to convey the typical Chinese male literati's melancholy during late autumn:
《秋思》 Autumn Thoughts枯藤老樹昏鴉。 A withered vine, an ancient tree, crows at dusk小橋流水人家。 A little bridge, a flowing stream, some huts古道西風瘦馬。 An old road, wind out of the west, an emaciated horse夕陽西下，斷腸人在天涯。 On the horizon at sunset is a heart-broken man.Only seven of his 15 plays are extant, of which four have been translated into English: