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Lu Jin

Lu Jin is a professor at Southwest University in China. He has published more than 40 books on poetics, and won various international awards.

3 Lu Jin Translations by Helen Jia

In oracle bone script, the character for “poetry” (詩) did not exist; ancient humans used “temple” (寺) to represent “poetry” (詩). If you split the character 詩 (poetry), it forms the phrase 寺之言, which means “the words of the temple”.

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