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The ''Three Hundred Tang Poems'' () is an anthology of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty (618 - 907) first compiled around 1763 by Sun Zhu (1722-1778〔Yu, 64-65〕), the Qing Dynasty scholar, also known as Hengtang Tuishi (衡塘退士 "Retired Master of Hengtang"). Various later editions also exist. All editions contain over 300 poems: in this case, three hundred means not exactly 300 but refers to an estimative quantification; the ten, twenty, or more extra poems represent a sort of a good luck bonus,〔Rexroth, xvi〕 analogous to the "baker's dozen" in the West. Even more, the number 300 (or more exactly 305) was a classic number for a poetry collection due to the influence of the ''Classic of Poetry'' (''Shijing'' 詩經), which was generally known as ''The Three Hundred Poems''.〔Yu, 64-65〕 Dissatisfied with the anthology ''Poems by a Thousand Masters'' (''Qianjiashi'' 千家詩) compiled by Liu Kezhuang in the late Southern Song, and influenced by Ming Dynasty poetry anthologies, Sun selected the poems based on their popularity and educational value. The collection has been popular ever since and can be found in many Chinese households. For centuries, elementary students memorized the poems and used them to learn to read and write. It contains poems by Du Fu, Li Bai, Wang Wei, Li Shangyin, Meng Haoran, Han Yu, Du Mu, Bai Juyi, Liu Changqing, Cen Shen, Wang Changling, Wei Yingwu, and more. Li He is one notable Tang poet absent from the compilation. ==Organization of poems== (詳細はpoem's formal type, of which there were seven: *Folk song styled verse (''yuefu'') *Ancient verse (''gushi''): * *Five-character ancient verse * *Seven-character ancient verse *Modern style verse (''jintishi''): * *Eight-line regulated verse (''lüshi''): * * *Five-character regular verse * * *Seven-character regular verse * *Quatrain (''jueju''): * * *Five-character quatrain * * *Seven-character quatrain Out of 317 poems in one edition, 90 were in the ''gushi'' form and 227 were in the ''lüshi'' or the ''jueju'' forms.〔Watson 127〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Three Hundred Tang Poems」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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