There is an old saying: after reading three hundred poetries of Tang Dynasty over and over again, even if you still do not know how to write poetry, you can at least intone poems. Own to abundant information, this book expresses the charm of poetries of Tang Dynasty to the full. The part of Introduction tells us the background of the works and creation of the poet, illustrates the main purpose, content, pattern and character; the part of Annotation expounds the meanings of words, transmitting necessary knowledge of ancient Chinese, ensuring to understand of the whole poetry without barriers; the part of Translated Text can enlightens the illusion of readers further by coordinating with the Annotation, to illustrate the purpose, dig the deep meanings of the poetries and display the aesthetic feelings; the part of Comments selects the comments of predecessors. The appendix of this book is general biographies of those poets. The content of this book contains: five-character ancient verse, Yuefu, seven-character ancient verse and so on. - from Amzon