The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine; Boston: Shambala, in which the translation of chapter titles is rather made according to the content than literally.

The Liji 礼记 "Book of rites" is a collection of descriptions of ritual matters written during the late Warring States 战国 (5th cent.-221 BCE) andFormer Han 前汉 (206 BCE-8 CE) periods.

The Liji 礼记 "Book of rites" is a collection of descriptions of ritual matters written during the late Warring States 战国 (5th cent.-221 BCE) andFormer Han 前汉 (206 BCE-8 CE) periods.

The poem praises the famous love between Niu Lang and Zhi Nv who is the seventh daughter of the heaven's King. Their story is also the origin of Chinese Valentine's Day (七夕Qīxī).

Li Bai (701-762) was born in Suiye in Central Asia. He went to East China and died at 62 in Dangtu, Anhui.

Luò bīn wáng(640AD-684AD), a famous poet in Tang Dynasty, wrote this poem at seven years old. He was regarded as the one of the four distinguished poems in early Tang Dynasty.

On a spring outing along the river, the poet discovers to his delight that everything in sight has taken on an entirely new look. How come? The vernal wind is blowing across the land.

Meng Haoran (689～740), a famous poem in the climax of Tang Dynasty, was good at writing pastoral poems.

In the poem, the poet depicts succinctly and plainly what he observes around him and gives the reader an exuberant imagination.

The poem describes what the poet thinks and feels about after his resigning from the official post, working as a peasantat the foot of the southern hill.

This poem shows what the poet sees and feels about as he ascends the high Tower.

This poem is an inscription on the painting of a rooster, in which the poet uses easy, colloquial language to picture a big, proud white rooster with the bright red crest.

This is a poem, in which one expects his kin to return home. What they have been expecting is only distress and dismay year after year.

The popular Chinese myth has it that a celestial being and a sweet-scented bay inhabit the moon. People tend to imagine the Goddess of the Moon Chang’e living a happy life up there.

This poem describes the picturesque surroundings around the thatched hut where the poet lived.The poem well conveys the poet's light heart and broad mind.

The poem exploits the techniques of metaphor and comparison to illustrate the fundamentals of success. It is a brilliant poem of eternal value used to advise the young to value their youth and ti

Wang Zhen's treatise Wang Zhen Nong Shu is a comprehensive work on agriculture. And It has exerted great influence on the development of the agriculture in the ancient China.

Xiang Ma Jing is the earliest book on science of animal husbandry in China elaborating the way to tell good horses from the inferior ones.

Qimin Yaoshu was written at the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty by Jia Sixie, and it is one of thhe earliest monographs on agriculture in the world and the most completed one existing in China.

Illustrated Catalogue of Plants is the first large flora of medicinal plants in China, and it has been kept in many countries and around the world in their national libraries today.