Publisher: China Translation & Publishing Corporation;

Publishing date: January 30, 2009 (first edition)

ISBN-10: 7500120184

ISBN-13: 978-7500120186

Book description:

This is a poetry anthology compiled by Liu Kezhuang of Song Dynasty and later screened by Xie Fangde for young people to learn, containing more than 200 poems composed during Tang and Song Dynasties. It has been widely spread and handed down for generations, more than 700 years. This collection includes only quatrains and octaves in seven or five characters per line, arranged according to seasonal sequence, that is, spring, summer, autumn, winter, which shows the harmonious relation between man and nature.