Harmony of words. Chinese lyrics of the X-XIII centuries

The lyrics in the genre of the Song era (X -XIII centuries) is one of the highest peaks of Chinese literature. Poetry approached the feelings, threw the constraining forms of canonical regular verses in the shi genre, also merged with music. The poetic texts of the TSI were written on the already famous or new melodies and, gaining musicality, expressed an intricate multi -dimensionality of lines, an exquisite phonetic structure, thought out of the harmony of sounds, a non -compassion with the smoke of thin hints and allusions.

Poetry often It was translated into different languages, but the features of form and melting were mainly related to a secondary plan and were far from always reproduced, which caused significant damage to the general harmonious sound of the work.

A real collection consisting of a hundred verses of thirty -four poets, the first In Russia, the most detailed selection gives a reliable idea of ​​the poetry of the Song era in the genre of tsy.