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Poets and thinkers with enough verified lines to explore.
These are not placeholder biography pages. An author appears here only when the bilingual corpus contains multiple source-linked lines, allowing you to compare themes, works, and modern meanings across a real collection.
Confucius孔子
Learning, friendship, self-reflection, fairness, proper conduct, patience, and empathy from source-linked passages in the Analects.
Li Bai李白
Moonlight, homesickness, friendship, ambition, beauty, release, and celebration in some of the most recognizable lines of Tang poetry.
Su Shi苏轼
Moonlight, separation, imperfection, perspective, hardship, and emotional steadiness expressed with unusual breadth and clarity.
Han Yu韩愈
Teachers, students, practice, diligence, talent, recognition, and the first signs of spring.
Wang Wei王维
Quiet mountains, moonlit solitude, travel, family longing, and landscape poems where stillness carries emotional meaning.
Mencius孟子
Human cooperation, hardship, integrity, ambition, and independent judgment in arguments that remain practical today.
Xunzi荀子
Learning, accumulation, persistence, transformation, and the intelligent use of tools and conditions.
Du Fu杜甫
Family separation, moonlit remembrance, aspiration, praise, and moral seriousness grounded in lived difficulty.
Laozi老子
Beginnings, self-knowledge, limits, contentment, and durable action in concise passages from the Tao Te Ching.
Zhuangzi庄子
Freedom from judgment, limits of perspective, letting go, and the difference between survival and genuine ease.
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