诗话

Traditional: 詩話

shī huà

Dictionary entry

notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old)

What does 诗话 mean?

诗话 (shī huà) has the following dictionary meaning.

1notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old)

2a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties

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诗Shīabbr. for Shijing 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1], the Book of Songs 话huàdialect · language

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诗话

shī huà

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