The Title and Commentary Written
(March 1958)
Several Poems (by Ming Dynasty poets, some of which relate to Sichuan. Among them is a poem on Cao Cao, which is not specifically about Sichuan; it is placed after a poem on Liu Bei by way of association.)
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To be set before the Ming poems as a general heading and printed separately, without mixing with Tang and Song poetry.
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This is the title and accompanying note drafted by Mao Zedong in March 1958 during the Chengdu Conference for the purpose of compiling and printing poems by Ming Dynasty poets that pertain to Sichuan. The principal poems included are:
Yang Ji’s “A Ten-Thousand-Li Map of the Yangtze River,”
Li Yanxing’s “On Reading Jia Yi’s Biography of Wang Ting,” Hong Yangshen’s “At Night by the Jinsha River,” “At the Three-Way Post,” “Bidding Farewell to Liu Shanchong with Wine Aboard the Boat at Jinjin,” “Sending Scholar Yu Home to Luojiang,” “Two Odes to Spring,” and “The Temple of Marquis Wu”; Huang Furen’s “A Letter Sent to Huangfu”; Fu Fang’s “A Ballad of Military Service, Presented to Yang Yongxiu”; Li Panlong’s “Seeing Off Captain Huangfu on His Journey to Kaizhou”; Xie Bang’s “Sending Off Officer Xie Wuxuan, Returning to Shu to Attend His Brother’s Funeral”;
Shi Jin’s “Ballads of the Ba Women”; Fei Mi’s “Chaotian Gorge”; Wu Lian’s “Emperor Han Zhaolie”; Chen Gongyin’s “Xiazhong” and “In Shu”; and Huang Youzao’s “Inscription on the Painting of Lady Mingfei Leaving for the Frontier.”