致敬译界巨匠许渊冲先生 图片 Translator’s Preface The 300 Tang poems selected in this anthology are classified into 10 categories according to themes, namely: Man and Nature Nature Poems Farewell Poems Homeland Poems Love Poems Historical Poems Frontier Poems Political and Satirical Poems Personality and Character Reflections and Recollections The Classification is not strict, that is to say, one poem may fall into different categories. The first category includes 41 poems which describe natural scenery and communion of man with nature, for example, Li Bai’s Waterfall in Mount Lu Viewed from Afar. The second category includes 39 poems which describe the force and beauty of nature, such as wind, rain, birds, trees, flowers, for example, He Zhizhang’s Willow. The third category relates the poets’ lov…