The Quantangshi (and also appearing in English transliteration, especially in some older sources, as Ch'üan T'ang Shi), and also translated as the Complete Tang Poems, is a collection of Tang poetry

Tang poetry

Tang poetry refers to poetry written in or around the time of and in the characteristic style of China's Tang dynasty, and/or follows a certain style, often considered as the Golden Age of Chinese poetry...

. Containing some 49,000 poems, it is the major source of surviving Tang Dynasty

Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire...

 poems, and one of the largest and most important, historically and otherwise, collections of poetry ever made.

History

The Quantangshi was imperially commissioned in 1705 CE, although the poems in it date from the time of the Tang Dynasty (approximately 618 to 907). The team charged with collecting the poems was led by Cao Yin (曹寅) and Peng Dingqiu (彭定求). The collection of nearly 50,000 poems by over 2,200 authors was divided into 900 scrolls.

External links

• Full text of the Quantangshi - Chinese Text Project
  Chinese Text Project
  The Chinese Text Project is a digital library project that assembles collections of early Chinese texts. The name of the project in Chinese literally means "The Digitization Project of Chinese Philosophy Books", showing its focus on books related to Chinese philosophy...