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The oldest written samples of Chinese poetry from The Book of Songs.which date back to more than 2600 years ago, depict various forms of lifeand style. Already at that time Chinese poets had started to follow certainrules to distinguish their poems from other forms of written texts.

In the ancient culture of Europe,the Greek and Roman poets used vari-ous forms of poetry which have survived up to our times.In the 20th century.western poets tried to break away from “the limits” of form by writing poemsin the so-called free verse style.This influenced other Chinese intellectuals inthe first decades of the 20th century and free verse poems are now verypopular in China.

Ambassador Wang Ronghua has devoted himself to Chinese poetrysince his youth.During his years as the ambassador of PRC to lceland , hebecame known among the literary circle as an excellent poet who wrote hislyrics in an ancient Chinese style.

The fact, that the Chinese language is written with calligraphy, hasmarked the characteristics and development of Chinese poetry.The writingand the expression follow each other and together form a way of deepeningthe expression of the poet.

As time flies ,people have been aware of the importance of bringing theold traditions and wisdom to the younger generation.ln this book, Wang Ron-ghua explains examples not only in different rules of poetry from differenttimes in Chinese history , but shows how the characters should be understoodin accordance with how they are arranged.Wang Ronghua points out in eachand every line how pairs of words are grouped to show the unique feature ofChinese poetry, which is antithesis.Even though the forms of Western andChinese poetry differ in form due to the structure of the written languages ,theancient poetry of China has