Chinese Classical Poetry Search — 300+ Hand-Annotated Tang/Song/Yuan Canon + 80,000 Searchable Poems

Real-world use cases

• A 7th-grader has to recite 《茅屋为秋风所破歌》 by Friday

  Type 茅屋为秋风所破歌 in the title box and the full Du Fu poem loads with a line-by-line modern-Mandarin paraphrase and glosses for the hard characters (庇 = 遮盖, 突兀 = 高耸). The student reads the paraphrase once, then covers it and recites against the original. The grade tag confirms it is on the 部编版 grade-7 list, so the teacher will actually ask for it on the dictation quiz.

• You only remember one line and need the title and author

  A line like 抽刀断水水更流 is stuck in your head but the title is gone. Paste those 7 characters into the line box and the search surfaces 李白《宣州谢朓楼饯别校书叔云》 instantly, because every poem is indexed by full text, not just title. No need to guess the dynasty or the author first. This is the fastest way to settle a 那句诗到底是谁写的 argument in a group chat.

• A teacher builds a 10-poem 思乡 theme unit for one class

  Filter by the 思乡 (homesickness) theme tag and you get 静夜思, 九月九日忆山东兄弟, 次北固山下 and a dozen more, each already carrying a translation and notes. Copy the ones that fit grade 5 into a worksheet in about 15 minutes instead of flipping through three textbooks. The theme tags are hand-assigned, so a poem about 坐看牵牛织女星 lands under 节日 rather than 爱情 by mistake.

• A content writer needs an exact-text Song ci quote, verified

  Writing a 中秋 article and you want 但愿人长久,千里共婵娟 with the correct surrounding lines. Search 苏轼 plus the fragment, open 《水调歌头·明月几时有》, and copy the verified full text. Because the tool never runs an LLM over poem text, you will not paste a plausible-looking but fake line that a reader who knows the poem will immediately catch and screenshot.

Common pitfalls

• Expecting a translation on every result. Only the 300+ hand-annotated classics carry 翻译/注释; a deep cut like 李贺《雁门太守行》 pulled from the full corpus shows verified text but no gloss. Stay inside the curated set when you need classroom notes.

• Typing the traditional form 靜夜思 and finding nothing on the curated layer. The in-page data is simplified, so search 静夜思. The full-corpus 全唐诗 chunk was OpenCC-converted to simplified at build time, so traditional input may miss matches there too.

• Bookmarking the daily poem URL to revisit a specific poem. The 每日一诗 is seeded by the calendar date and rotates at local midnight, so the link shows a different poem tomorrow. Search the title directly instead, e.g. 春望, to pin it.

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