Lu You (陆游 or 陸遊)(1125- 1210) was a Chinese poet of the southern Song dynasty. He passed the civil service examination, but was unsuccessful in his official career: he adopted a patriotic stance, advocating the expulsion of the Jurchen from northern China, but this position was out of tune with the times. He retired to Shaoxing in frustration. His wife died in 1197. Events May 23 - Lothar of Saxony becomes Holy Roman Emperor on the death of Henry V. War ends between Toulouse and Provence. ... Events End of the reign of Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan Emperor Juntoku ascends to the throne of Japan Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor excommunicated by Pope Innocent III for invading southern Italy in 1210 Gottfried von Strassburg writes his epic poem Tristan about 1210 Beginning of Delhi Sultanate Births May... Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the Chinese language. ... The Song Dynasty (Chinese: 宋朝) was a ruling dynasty in China from 960-1279. ... The imperial examinations (科舉, kējǔ) in dynastic China determined positions in the civil service, which had promoted upward mobility among the people for centuries. ... The Jurchens (Chinese: 女真, pinyin: nǚzhēn) were a Tungusic people who inhabited parts of Manchuria and northern Korea until the seventeenth century, when they became the Manchus. ... A boat on one of Shaoxings waterways, near the city center. ... Events Amalric II succeeds Henry II of Champagne as king of Jerusalem. ...

He wrote over ten thousand poems, in both the shi and ci forms, plus a number of prose works. In his poetry he continues to articulate the beliefs which cost him his official career, calling for reconquest of the north. Watson identifies these works as part of the legacy of Du Fu (p. 314). Watson compares a second body of work, poems on country life and growing old, to those of Bai Juyi and Tao Qian. Shi (詩) is the Chinese word for poem; it can also be used to mean Chinese poetry other than lyrics, or (most commonly) the classical form of poetry developed in the late Han dynasty and which reached its zenith in the Tang dynasty. ... Ci poetry (è©ž, interchangeable with è¾­ pinyin cí) is a kind of lyric Chinese poetry. ... Prose is writing distinguished from poetry by its greater variety of rhythm and its closer resemblance to the patterns of everyday speech. ... Bust of Homer, one of the earliest European poets, in the British Museum Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Bai Juyi (白居易; pinyin: Bái Jūyì; Wade-Giles: Pai Chü-i), or Bo Juyi (pinyin: Bó Jūyì; WG. Po Chü-i) (772 - 846) was a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. ... Categories: People stubs | Chinese poets ...

Further reading

• Burton Watson (ed.) (1984), The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry, Columbia University Press, ISBN 0231056834.
• Burton Watson (trans.) (1994) The old man who does as he pleases, Columbia University Press, ISBN 0231101554.