摘要
When you talk to Chinese people about their country’s greatest cultural achievements,they almost always mention the great poems of the Tang Dynasty(618-907),which are more titan a thousand years old.Chinese can recite these poems by heart.Indeed,my modter-in-law is teaching them to my daughter,who cannot yet say“Mama.”I hope it does not expose me as too much of a philistine to say that while I admire these poems greatly,I don’t enjoy them all.
