Sima Xiangru (pronounced [sɹ̩́mà ɕjáŋɻǔ], c. 179 – 117 BC) was a Chinese musician, poet, and politician who lived during the Western Han dynasty. Sima...

Lin Xiangru (Chinese: 藺相如; pinyin: Lìn Xiāngrú) (died c.July 260 BCE) was a politician and general of the Warring States period, who served the state of...

the Western Han dynasty. As a young widow, she eloped with the poet Sima Xiangru. The poem Baitou Yin (白頭吟, White-Haired Lament) which complains at the...

Consort Ban are not determined. Other Han poets include Sima Xiangru, Ban Gu, and Mi Heng. Sima Xiangru (179–127 BC, also known as Szu-ma Hsiang-ju) was one...

burner around 180 AD. There is a hint in the writing of the earlier Sima Xiangru (179–117 BC) that the gimbal existed in China since the 2nd century BC...

traced back to the Han dynasty. "Rhapsody on the Imperial Park" (上林賦), Sima Xiangru mentions the xiezhi 解豸/解廌 "sagacious stag" among the prey in the year-end...

winter rape-turnips, perilla, evodia, and purple ginger. Along with Sima Xiangru (179–117 BC), Zhang listed a variety of animals and hunting game inhabiting...

Kern Of all the authors from the golden age of "grand fu" composition, Sima Xiangru is generally considered to be the greatest. A native of Chengdu, he was...

BC) Ma Rong (79–166) Ruan Ji (210-263) Shen Yue (441–513) Sima Qian (c. 145–90 BC) Sima Xiangru (179–117 BC) Su Hui (fl. 4th century) Su Xiaoxiao (fl. 4th...

of Nanyue, made a push south of the Yangtze River and a little later Sima Xiangru pushed into the hill country west of Sichuan. These campaigns into tribal...

Although some of the courtiers wanted to boil Xiangru immediately, the King of Qin said, "If We kill Xiangru now, We still cannot acquire the jade, and it...

zoos as early as the Western Han Dynasty in China, where the writer Sima Xiangru noted that the panda was the most treasured animal in the emperor's garden...

golden house" (金屋藏嬌), recorded in Ban Gu's Hanwu Stories (汉武故事). The poet Sima Xiangru wrote a song The Ode of Long Gate (長門賦 Changmenfu) describing the love...

of Emperor Wu in his court, with poet and official Sima Xiangru as a leading figure. However, Sima's initial interest in the chu ci style later gave way...

the Western Han dynasty and author of Records of the Grand Historian Sima Xiangru, a minor official during the Western Han dynasty but better known for...

famous literary masters in the Han dynasty were from Chengdu, including Sima Xiangru, Yang Xiong, and Wang Bao. In the former Han dynasty, the whole country...

(pharaoh) of Egypt (d. 51 BC) Huo Qubing, Chinese general of the Han dynasty (b. 140 BC) Sima Xiangru, Chinese statesman, poet, and musician (b. 179 BC)...

was a popular trope in Classical Chinese poetry. Mo first appeared in Sima Xiangru's c. 138 BCE Shanglin fu (上林賦, Rhapsody on Shanglin Park). Emperor Wu...

a youth Yang was an admirer and imitator of his elder Shu compatriot Sima Xiangru and the "grand fu" style of the early Han period. His ability and success...

Wilhelm (1967 [1957]): 311. Wilhelm (1967 [1957]): 312–314, quoting Sima Qian on Sima Xiangru. Gushi: traditional Chinese: 古詩; simplified Chinese: 古诗; pinyin:...

as B.C. 285, in Qin Dynasty[citation needed]. Famous people include: Sima Xiangru, Pu Fuzhou, Hai Deng, Li Youxing. Zitong County comprises 15 towns and...

issued an imperial decree: 'Sima Xiangru is critically ill. Retrieve his writings.' The emissary who collected Sima Xiangru's writings told Emperor Wu about...

Avestan: Vendidad Chinese: Sima Qian: Records of the Grand Historian (Shǐ Jì) Huainanzi: Book of the Huai'nan Masters Sima Xiangru Six Secret Teachings (Liù...

Virtually every major Chinese writer or poet in history, from Sima Xiangru and Sima Qian during the Han dynasty, Ruan Ji and Tao Yuanming during the...

century by Fan Ye (398–445 CE). This history developed from a continuation of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, initiated by Ban Gu's father, Ban...

Moschus, Greek poet Pacuvius, Roman poet Quintus Ennius, Roman poet Sima Xiangru (司馬相如), Chinese musician, poet and writer Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman...

southwestern area of Shu (modern Sichuan Province); for example, Sima Xiangru. Sima Xiangru is the most famous fu writer of Chinese history. A native of Chengdu...

music, and set music to commissioned poetry by noted figures such as Sima Xiangru. The Han dynasty had officially adopted Confucianism as the state philosophy...

known as fu in Chinese, was a new literary genre. The poet and official Sima Xiangru (179–117 BCE) wrote several rhapsodies, yet his largest and most influential...

" The c. 100 BCE Shiji "Records of the Grand Historian" biography of Sima Xiangru quotes his fu 賦 poem entitled Zixu 子虛 "Sir Fantasy". Like the Huaiananzi...