About the author

Qian Qi was a poet of the Tang dynasty; public sources offer limited information about his life, including his birth and death dates and native place. Judging from the eight works collected here, his writing centers on farewell and occasional poems, travels through landscape, and reflections on daily life. Pieces such as "Seeing Off Li Bingcao to Hezhong," "Seeing Off Bian Buque Eastward to Visit His Parents," and "Replying to Yang Buque's Visit in the Mountains" mostly depict partings from friends and journeys taken for official duty, while "Twenty-Two Miscellaneous Poems of the Lantian Stream," "Autumn Evening in the Medicine Hall," and "Autumn Thoughts by the Seaside" turn to stream-and-mountain scenery and autumnal moods. His style is clear and restrained, skillfully lodging emotion in ordinary scenes. He continues the lingering manner of High Tang poetry, attentive to meter and parallelism, with polished language that does not lack feeling; his farewell poems are especially warm and sincere. Because sources are limited, details of his life cannot be fully described, yet his surviving works still reflect the literary exchanges and landscape poetry of the mid-Tang period and remain rewarding for readers of classical verse.

Written (8)

Rating 4.2★ Seeing Off Military Officer Li to Hezhong 钱起 Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024 One of the poems composed by the Tang dynasty poet Qian Qi. Rating 3.8★ Seeing Off Bian the Reminder, Returning East to Visit His Parents 钱起 Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024 "Seeing Off Bian Buque as He Returns East to Visit His Parents" is one of the representative works of Qian Qi, a famous writer of the Tang Dynasty. Rating 3.7★ Autumn Thoughts by the Seashore 钱起 Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024 Hai Pan Qiu Si is one of the poems by the Tang dynasty poet Qian Qi. Rating 3.7★ Autumn Dusk at the Medicine Hall 钱起 Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024 A poem composed by the Tang poet Qian Qi. Rating 3.6★ Seeing Off Secretary Fu to the Army in Shu 钱起 Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024 "Seeing Off Clerk Fu to the Shu Army" is one of the poems by Qian Qi of the Tang dynasty. Rating 3.4★ In the Mountains, Replying to Yang the Reminder's Visit 钱起 Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024 “Replying to Vice Director Yang's Visit in the Mountains” is a work by Qian Qi. Rating 3.3★ Late Autumn at the Medicine Hall 钱起 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive, and literary. Early modes of thought are distinctive: … Rating 3.5★ Twenty-Two Miscellaneous Poems on the Lantian Stream 钱起 Bashu Publishing House · 2020 "Kingfisher with a Fish" is one of the twenty-two poems in "Miscellaneous Verses from the Lan Tian Stream" by the Tang dynasty poet Qian Qi.

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Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju)Bashu Publishing House