Tangzhou Mountain
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Collectors of Tang poetry anthologies and anonymous works
- Teachers who need short Tang poems for classroom examples
- General readers interested in Tang landscape poetry
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking detailed annotations and background research
- Readers expecting long narrative poems or representative works by famous authors
Reading tips
- First consult the Complete Tang Poems and related supplements to confirm the poem's inclusion and textual variants.
- Use Tang geographical works to clarify the location of Tangzhou Mountain and related legends.
- Read this poem alongside landscape poems of the same period and compare imagery and structure.
- Focus on recitation; there is no need to force a deep interpretation, but rather preserve the openness of an anonymous work.
About the publisher
Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) was a private publishing and distribution house in Shanghai during the late Qing and early Republican periods, issuing traditional works by lithographic printing. Judging from the 1,194 titles in the collection, its publishing focused on classical poetry, Eastern philosophy, historical reading, traditional Chinese medical texts, and canonical works, along with books on literary appreciation. Representative titles include the poetry and prose collections of Du Fu and Ouyang Xiu; historical works such as the Book of Han and Zizhi Tongjian; classical texts such as the Book of Documents and Mencius; and specialized and literary classics such as Treatise on Cold Damage and Li Sao. Its author resources cover major figures across the ages, including Du Fu, Ban Gu, Sima Guang, Zhang Zhongjing, Qu Yuan, Ouyang Xiu, and Tang Shenwei, reflecting the house's characteristic reliance on traditional scholarship and medical literature while serving general readers. Public information on its early history and operational details is limited, so no conjecture is offered here.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 【秋】无名氏
- 卷785_5【冬】无名氏
- 卷785_6【鸡头】无名氏
- 卷785_7【红蔷薇（一作庄南杰诗）】无名氏
- 卷785_8【斑竹簟】无名氏
- 卷785_9【听琴】无名氏
- 卷785_10【石榴】无名氏
- 卷785_11【秦家行】无名氏
- 卷785_12【小苏家】无名氏
- 卷785_13【斑竹】无名氏
- 卷785_14【天竺国胡僧水晶念珠】无名氏
- 卷785_15【白雪歌】无名氏
- 卷785_16【琵琶】无名氏
- 卷785_17【伤哉行】无名氏
- 卷785_18【留赠偃师主人】无名氏
- 卷785_19【长门】无名氏
- 卷785_20【宴李家宅】无名氏
- 卷785_21【长信宫】无名氏
- 卷785_22【骊山感怀】无名氏
- 卷785_23【绝句】无名氏
- 卷785_24【听唱鹧鸪】无名氏
- 卷785_25【杂诗（第八首一作白居易诗）】无名氏
- 卷785_26【初过汉江】无名氏
- 卷785_27【读庾信集】无名氏
- 卷七百八十六
- 卷786_1【题长乐驿壁】无名氏
- 卷786_2【绝句】无名氏
- 卷786_3【题取经诗（载《翻译名义集》，云唐义净三藏作）】无名氏
- 卷786_4【题水心寺水轩】无名氏
- 卷786_5【王昭君】无名氏
- 卷786_6【王昭君（一作崔国辅诗）】无名氏
- 卷786_7【粉笺题诗】无名氏
- 卷786_8【咏美人骑马】无名氏
- 卷786_9【六言诗】无名氏
- 卷786_10【胡笳曲】无名氏
- 卷786_11【桃源行送友人】无名氏
- 卷786_12【唐衢墓（一作贾岛诗）】无名氏
- 卷786_13【宫词】无名氏
- 卷786_14【抛球诗（一作李谨言诗）】无名氏
- 卷786_15【艳歌】无名氏
- 卷786_16【杨柳枝】无名氏
- 卷786_17【河中石刻】无名氏
- 卷786_18【古砚】无名氏
- 卷786_19【绝句】无名氏
- 卷786_20【题童氏画】无名氏
- 卷786_21【失题】无名氏
- 卷786_22【姜宣弹小胡笳引歌】无名氏
- 卷786_23【罗浮山】无名氏
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About the author
Anonymous is not a real personal name but a general Chinese designation for authors whose names are unknown, lost, or unsigned. Neither nationality nor dates of birth and death can be verified, and available public information is limited, so the works attributed to this name are the only basis for description. The collection holds 2,078 works under Anonymous, spanning medicine, classics, historical readings, ancient poetry, classical literature, and philosophy. Representative works include The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon: Lingshu, Mencius, The Book of Documents, Nineteen Old Poems, Complete Song Ci, and The Peacock Flies Southeast. Most of these works took shape through long transmission and editing, emerging either from collective folk creation or from authors whose names were lost over time. In ancient China, the Book of Songs, the Great Learning, and many popular storybooks and plays were signed Anonymous because their authors could not be traced. Anonymous works cross the classics, histories, philosophical writings, medical texts, and poetry; their subjects are broad, and their styles vary from archaic simplicity to clear naturalness, making them important and influential sources for understanding ancient Chinese thought, medicine, and literature.
