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Ancient Chinese literature has always been referred to as "poetry" and "ci". Ci originated in the Tang Dynasty and rapidly developed from popular music literature to the representative literary style from the Five Dynasties to the Song Dynasty, becoming a great nation. Neighboring countries such as Japan, North Korea, and Vietnam in the Chinese cultural circle are deeply influenced by ancient Chinese literature and have also created numerous Chinese poems. The "Selected Poems from Foreign Countries" compiled by Mr. Xia Chengtao is a selection of Chinese-language works written by literati from ancient Japan, Korea, Vietnam and other countries. It is an important collection of historical materials for the study of Chinese literary creation in the Chinese cultural circle. It has important reference value for the study of ancient literature, ancient culture, ancient history, and comparative literature.

This book is a selection of the lyrics of Mr. Xia Chengtao, a great master of poetry in the 20th century. The book contains 200 lyrics written by Mr. Xia during his lifetime, which is the essence of his life's lyrics. The lyrics in the book are arranged in the chronological order of creation, reflecting the main characteristics of the three stages of Mr. Throughout his lyrics, we can indeed take in the thinness and hardness of the valley, the clearness of the white stone, and the majesty and grandeur of the east slope and Jiaxuan. It shows the creative process and ideological changes of a giant in epithology. The selected poems all have annotations by Mr. Xia's disciples, famous scholars, poets, and Professor Zhou Duwen. Mr. Zhou Duwen has followed Mr. Xia for many years and has a very good understanding of Mr. Xia's life and poetry creation process. His interpretation is precise, clear and wonderful, creating a work that is called "classics by famous writers, interpretations by famous writers".