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Y菕ng means chant; W霉 means thing or matter; Sh墨 means poem, poetry. Y菕ng W霉 Sh墨 is a poem that expresses people鈥檚 aspirations, emotions or humanity through chanting about a thing / object.
In a Y菕ng W霉 Sh墨, anything in nature, such as a mountain, a river, a flower or a tree can be described, chanted and written about. To compare to the poet himself, both of the thing and the author are integrated together totally. Usually, the author writes his Y菕ng W霉 Sh墨 to express his attitude towards life, beautiful wishes, philosophy of life and sentiment.
Y菕ng W霉 Sh墨 is a wonderful poem in Chinese traditional poetry. The ancient Chinese enjoyed chanting things, to describe things through poetry. According to statistics, in the Quan Tang Shi -- Complete Tang Poems, there are 6,021 Y菕ng W霉 Sh墨 in all of the 49,403 (in another version there are 42,863) Tang poems, it is 8.2% of the total. The interesting thing is that 3,556 of them were written in the Latter Tang. Therefore, I think that maybe people enjoyed writing Yong Wu Shi, because they liked to express their true thoughts and feelings indirectly in complex political situations.
In this publication, Ting Zhu -- The Bamboo in the Courtyard is a Y菕ng W霉 Sh墨.
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