诗 (Shī): meaning and stroke order

诗 in our stories

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• 一千五百多年前，诗人陶渊明却写诗称赞她：小小的精卫衔着树枝，要去填那无边的大海。

  yìqiānwǔbǎi duō nián qián shīrén Táo Yuānmíng què xiě shī chēngzàn tā xiǎoxiǎo de Jīngwèi xián zhe shùzhī yào qù tián nà wúbiān de dàhǎi

  But more than fifteen hundred years ago the poet Tao Yuanming wrote a poem in her praise: tiny Jingwei, carrying twigs in her beak, set out to fill the boundless sea.

  From the story Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

• 北宋的时候，大文学家苏轼因为写诗讽刺朝廷的新法，被人告发，关进了监狱。

  Běi Sòng de shíhou dà wénxuéjiā Sū Shì yīnwèi xiě shī fěngcì cháotíng de xīnfǎ bèi rén gàofā guān jìn le jiānyù

  In the Northern Song the great writer Su Shi was denounced for writing poems that mocked the court's new laws, and was thrown into prison.

  From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

• 他想起李白的诗：黄河三尺鲤，本在孟津居；点额不成龙，归来伴凡鱼。连李白这样的人，也把自己比作一条没有跳过龙门的鱼。

  tā xiǎngqǐ Lǐ Bái de shī Huáng Hé sān chǐ lǐ běn zài Mèngjīn jū diǎn é bù chéng lóng guīlái bàn fán yú lián Lǐ Bái zhèyàng de rén yě bǎ zìjǐ bǐzuò yì tiáo méiyǒu tiào guò Lóngmén de yú

  He recalled lines by Li Bai: "A three-foot carp of the Yellow River once lived at Mengjin; its forehead marked, it did not become a dragon, and came home to swim with common fish." Even a man like Li Bai had compared himself to a carp that failed to leap the gate.

  From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9