Ma Zhiyuan

[1] Among his achievements is the development and popularizing of the sanqu (散曲) lyric type of Classical Chinese poetry forms.

[1] His sanqu poems were collected in the book "Dongli Yuefu" (traditional Chinese: 東籬樂府; simplified Chinese: 东篱乐府; lit.

'The Eastern Fence Poetry'), where there were 104 single sanqu (Xiaoling 小令) and 17 song suites (Taoshu 套數).

Ma Zhiyuan's sanqu poem "Autumn Thoughts" (秋思), composed to the metric pattern Tianjingsha (天淨沙), uses ten images in twenty-two monosyllables to preamble a state of emotion, and is considered as the penultimate[citation needed] piece in Chinese poetry to convey the typical Chinese male literati's melancholy during late autumn: Only seven of his 15 plays are extant, of which four have been translated into English:[1]

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