The History of Tang Poetry
Different Forms of Tang Poetry for Writing Chinese Characters
How to Write the Title of poem "The Yearning" in Chinese Characters
How to Write 'Hope' in Chinese Characters
How to Write a Respectful Form of Address in Chinese Characters
How to Write 'Much' in Chinese Characters
How to Write 'Pick-Up' in Chinese Characters
More Ways to Write 'Pick-Up' in Chinese Characters
How to Write the Third Line of poem "The Yearning" in Chinese Characters
How to Write 'This' in Chinese Characters
How to Write 'Anything' in Chinese Characters
How to Write 'Most' in Chinese Characters
How to Write 'Each' in Chinese Characters
How to Write 'Thought' in Chinese Characters
How to Write the Last Line of poem "The Yearning" in Chinese Characters
How to Write the Last two Lines of poem "The Yearning" in Chinese Characters
Summary: Learn the history of Tang Poetry with expert tips and advice on foreign languages in this free video clip on Chinese characters.
Esther-Xiaohua Liu is a graduate student and teaching assistant with a major in Chinese Literature and Languages at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught Chinese at...read more
The Chinese language has produced many poets studied all over the world, including Lau Tzu and Confucious. Thousands of poems from these authors remain, and their aesthetic and cultural value is unparalleled. Chinese is written mostly in logograms, characters that have structural and semantic meaning in the language, as well as pictograms, characters that look like the object that they refer to.
In this free video series, our expert Esther-Xiaohua Liu will show you how to write Chinese characters using the Wang Wei poem The Yearning. Esther will talk about the history of Tang poetry, and teach you about the different forms of Tang poetry. She will teach you all the characters and words you need to know to read the poem including hope, pick up, much, this, anything, most, each, and thought. Esther will even teach you how to write the title of the poem and the poet's name in Chinese characters!
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