What is included in Thousand Family Poems?

The Thousand Family Poems is a combination of the Song Dynasty's Xie Fangde's "Re-determined Thousand Family Poems" (all of which are seven-line poems) and the Ming Dynasty's Wang Xiang's "Five-Line Thousand Family Poems". It is an anthology of poems with the nature of enlightenment in the old times of China. Because most of the poems it selected were famous poems of the Tang and Song dynasties, it was easy to learn and understand, with a variety of themes: landscape and garden, gifting and sending off friends, homesickness and nostalgia, mourning for the past and the present, painting and serving banquets, and it reflected the social reality of the Tang and Song dynasties, so it was widely circulated among the people, and its influence was also very far-reaching.

Table of Contents

Volume 1 Seven Poems Spring Day Occasional Spring Day Spring Night Spring Night Spring Night Early Spring Drizzle Yuan Day Shangyuan Banquet Spring Festival Occasional Playing Balls Palace Lyrics Court Examinations Winging Hua Qing Gong Qing Dynasty Words of Qingping Diyi Mianbi Compositions Begonia Chingming Chingming Chingming Chingming Festival Festival Cold Snacks Gangnam Spring Shanggao Servant's Loan Compositions Worthlessness of Touring the Garden Visiting in the City Inscribed Screen Dissent Dansing Peach Blossoms in Qingquan Xunduguan Peach Blossoms in Xandugan Re-visiting Xunduguan Western Stream of Chuzhou Flowering Northern Mountain Lake Dansing Spring Clearing Spring Twilight Spring Dusk Tour of Small Garden Falling Flowers Spring Twilight Visit to a Small Garden Yingshuo Twilight Spring Episode Mountain Climbing Mountain Climbing Silkworm Woman's Chant Late Spring Hurting Spring Sending Spring on the Obscure Day of March Sending Spring Early Summer in a Guest's House Having an Appointment Idle Living in Early Summer Napping Up in a Three-Quarter Road Immediate Scene Early Summer in the Zhang Yuan Garden Visit to Zhang Yuan Mountain Pavilion Summer Day at Tien's House Village Residence Episode Title Durantine Flower Evening at the Village Writing on the Wall of Mr. Wuyi Lane Seeing off Yuan's Envoy to Anxi Issue North Salt Stone Inscription of the Temple of Huai'nan Autumn Moon July eve Autumn Festival Autumn eve Mid-Autumn Moon Sense of the Jiang Lou Issue of the Residence of Lin'an Dawn Sending Lin Zifang to the Temple of Jingsi Drinking at Lake After the first clearing, it rains, and people are straight, in summer, climbing the Chegai Pavilion, the Bamboo Tower, the Bamboo Tower, the Central Book Department, the Feeling of Watching a Book, canoeing, the Cold Spring Pavilion, Winter Scene, Maple Bridge, the Maple Bridge, the Night Poetry, Cold Night, Frosty Night, the Plum King, Early Spring, Snowy Plums, I. Snowy Plums, II.