| Complete Tang Poems | |
|---|---|
| Traditional Chinese | 全唐詩 |
| Simplified Chinese | 全唐诗 |
| Literal meaning | Complete (collection of) Tang shi poetry |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Quán Tángshī |
| Wade–Giles | Ch'üan2 T'ang2-shih1 or Ch'üan T'ang shih |
| Reference abbreviations:
QTS (for Pinyin), ChTS (for other) Alternate Chinese name = 御定全唐詩 | |
Complete Tang Poems (or Quan Tangshi) is the largest collection of Tang poetry, containing some 49,000 lyric poems by more than twenty-two hundred poets. In 1705, it was commissioned at the direction of the Qing dynasty Kangxi Emperor and published under his name.[1] The Complete Tang Poems is the major reservoir of surviving Tang dynasty poems, from which the pre-eminent shorter anthology, Three Hundred Tang Poems, is largely drawn.