chinese-poetry/chinese-poetry resource

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

The most comprehensive open-source database of classical Chinese poetry, distributed as JSON files. It contains roughly 55,000 Tang poems, 260,000 Song poems, 21,000 Song ci (lyrics), and metadata for nearly 14,000 poets from the Tang and Song dynasties.

Use cases

• build a random Chinese poem generator app
• train a model to compose classical Chinese poetry
• analyze word frequency in Tang and Song dynasty poems
• build a poetry search or lookup website
• get a random poem for a daily quote feature
• research classical Chinese literature with structured data
• create a poetry learning or recitation app

When to choose

• you need structured JSON data of classical Chinese poems and poets
• you are building an app, website, or ML model involving Chinese poetry
• you want a large, permissively licensed (MIT) corpus of Tang and Song literature

When to avoid

• you need modern Chinese or non-Chinese poetry
• you need a ready-made application or API rather than raw data files
• you require rigorously proofread scholarly editions of the texts

Facets

dataset · maturity stable

data-science nlp education data-science cross-platform chinese-poetry tang-poetry song-poetry song-ci classical-chinese-literature open-data corpus natural-language-processing

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