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=Classical Chinese poetry genres=


 * Classical Chinese poetry forms** are those genres which typify the traditional Chinese poems written in Classical Chinese. Some of these genres are attested to as early as the publication of the Classic of Poetry, dating from a traditionally, and roughly, estimated time of around BCE 500, in what is now China, but at that time was composed of various independent states. The term "genres" refers to various considerations as to topic and subject matter, what similes or metaphors were considered appropriate or how they would be interpreted, and other considerations such as vocabulary and style. These genres were generally, but not always independent of the Classical Chinese poetry forms. Many or most of these were developed by the Tang Dynasty and use and development of Classical Chinese poetry genres actively continued up to until the May Fourth Movement, in 1919, and are not totally extinct even today in the Twenty-first Century.