Chinese Poetry Database

Open JSON dataset of Tang and Song poems, Song lyrics and other classical Chinese texts

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Chinese Poetry Database is an open dataset of classical Chinese literature in JSON format, built for developers who want to create poetry apps, search tools or research projects. The texts are in classical Chinese, and the README is in Chinese too.

The collection includes roughly 55,000 Tang poems, 260,000 Song poems and about 21,000 Song lyrics, along with works by nearly 14,000 Tang and Song poets. It also covers Five Dynasties lyrics, The Analects, The Book of Songs, The Four Books and Five Classics, and other classics. The project is released under the MIT license.

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