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 / name of essay column in Beijing newspaper from 1961-1966, written by Deng Tuo 鄧拓|邓拓, Wu Han 吳晗|吴晗 / and Liao Mosha 廖沫沙, criticized as anti-party during the Cultural Revolution
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
The first concern is affairs of state, enjoying the pleasure comes later. Quotation from essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记 / by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹[Fan4 Zhong4 yan1]
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