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Chinese lyric poetry[edit]

Lyric poetry has two quotes from a Chinese source left in Chinese. Google is giving me gibberish, so could someone please include an English gloss beside the Chinese originals? — LlywelynII 08:29, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@LlywelynII: Thank you for fixing this, along with a significant number of other problems with the article. ~E:71.20.250.51 (talk) 23:02, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome Y'know the new software has a "thank" feature now, but it's still nice to hear however it happens.
Still, you've no idea what a good gloss on「《史记·屈原贾生列传》…形成悲愤深沉之风格特征。」and 「抒情性文学…的创作开创了元代理学家诗文创作的先河。」are, beyond Google's "Biography of Qu Yuan [& Jia Sheng?]" in the Records of the Grand Historian: "...the formation of the style characteristics of deep grief" and "The creation of literary lyricism to create a literary creation scientist Yuan agency precedent"? 'Cuz those don't seem right...;) — LlywelynII 05:43, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • 「《史记·屈原贾生列传》…形成悲愤深沉之风格特征。」 could be "The Qu Yuan Jia Sheng (?) Biography in the Records of the Grand Historian ... formed the style characteristics of deep grief."
  • 「抒情性文学…的创作开创了元代理学家诗文创作的先河。」 seems to mean "The creation of lyrical literature pioneered the first Yuan Dynasty philosophers' poetry." — SMUconlaw (talk) 16:44, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]