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Zhang Fei on the Long Sloped Bridge Turning Away One Million Wei Troops with a Powerful Stare, woodblock colour print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1884. It depicts a scene from the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The Shijing, also known as the Classic of Poetry, contains 305 poems, in addition to six poem titles. These works are categorized as popular songs, ballads, courtly songs, or eulogies.12