The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction / all the possible schemes and stratagems
三家村
Sān jiā cūn
(lit.) village of three households / the Three Family Village, an essay column in a Beijing newspaper from 1961-1966, written by Deng Tuo 鄧拓|邓拓[Deng4 Tuo4], Wu Han 吳晗|吴晗[Wu2 Han2] and Liao Mosha 廖沫沙[Liao4 Mo4 sha1], criticized as anti-Party during the Cultural Revolution
五人墓碑记
wǔ rén mù bēi jì
Five Men’s Tombstone Inscription, an essay by Zhang Pu 張溥|张溥[Zhang1 Pu3] commemorating five martyrs who died resisting the tyranny of Wei Zhongxian 魏忠賢|魏忠贤[Wei4 Zhong1xian2] during the late Ming dynasty
先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐
xiān tiān xià zhī yōu ér yōu , hòu tiān xià zhī lè ér lè
to be the first to worry about affairs of state, and the last to enjoy oneself (quotation from the essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记[Yue4yang2 Lou2 Ji4] by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹[Fan4 Zhong4yan1])
原道
yuán dào
original path / essay by Tang philosopher Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈[Han2 Yu4]
策问
cè wèn
essay on policy in question and answer form used in imperial exams
策试
cè shì
imperial exam involving writing essay on policy 策論|策论[ce4 lun4]
策论
cè lùn
essay on current affairs submitted to the emperor as policy advice (old)
缀文
zhuì wén
to compose an essay
开笔
kāi bǐ
to start learning as a poet / to write one's first (poem, essay etc)
文不加点
wén bù jiā diǎn
to write a flawless essay in one go (idiom) / to be quick-witted and skilled at writing compositions
诗话
shī huà
notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old) / a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties
fù