List of Chinese-language poets
The following is a list of Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the languages of China.
A
- Ai Qing
B
- Bai Juyi or Bo Juyi
- Consort Ban
- Ban Gu
- Bei Dao
- Bei Ling
- Bian Zhilin
C
- Cai Wenji
- Cai Yong
- Cao Cao 曹操
- Cao Pi
- Cao Zhi
- Cen Shen
- Chen Sanli
- Chen Minghua
- Chen Nianxi
- Chen Yinke
- Chen Zi'ang
- Chūgan Engetsu, Japanese poet who wrote in Chinese, a figure in "Japanese Literature of the Five Mountains"
- Cui Hao, Tang dynasty poet
D
- Dai Biaoyuan
- Dai Wangshu
- Dong Xiaowan
- Du Fu 杜甫, the "Poet Sage"
- Du Mu, Tang poet, official
- Duo Duo
E
- Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
F
- Fei Ye 菲野
- Fenggan, "Big Stick", a legendary Buddhist monk. He was an associate of the famous legendary poets Han Shan and Shih Te.
G
- Gao Qi, Ming dynasty poet
- Gidō Shūshin
- Gong Zizhen
- Gu Cheng
- Gu Taiqing
- Guan Daosheng
- Guo Moruo, poet, historian, archaeologist
H
- Hai Zi 海子, modern mystic poet
- Han Yu 韩愈
- Han Shan, "Cold Mountain"
- He Zhizhang
- Huang Tingjian 黄庭堅
- Huarui Furen
- Huang Zongxi
I
- Ido Reizan
J
- Jao Tsung-I
- Ji Xian, leading Taiwanese modernist
- Jia Dao 贾岛
- Jia Yi
- Jiang Yan
K
- Ke Yan
- Kokan Shiren
- Kong Shangren
L
- Leung Ping-kwan
- Li E
- Li Bai, the "Poet Immortal"
- Li He
- Li Qiao
- Li Qingzhao
- Li Shangyin
- Li Yu
- Liang Desheng
- Liang Huang
- Lin Huiyin
- Liu Yuxi
- Liu Zongyuan
- Lu Guimong
- Lu Ji
- Lu You
- Lu Yu
- Lu Zhaolin
- Lu Zhi
- Luo Binwang
M
- Ma Rong
- Mang Ke
- Mao Zedong
- Mei Yaochen, Song dynasty poet
- Meng Haoran, Tang dynasty poet
- Mi Heng
- Mu Dan
N
- Natsume Sōseki, Japan's modern composer of Chinese poetry
- Nalan Xingde
- Nie Gannu
O
- Ouyang Xiu
P
- Pan Yue
- Pan Lei
- Pei Di
- Pi Rixiu
Q
- Qian Zhongshu
- Qin Zihao, leading Taiwanese modernist
- Qiu Jin
- Qiu Wei
- Qu Yuan, State of Chu poet
- Quan Deyu
- Qiao Ji
R
- Ruan Ji
S
- Shangguan Wan'er
- Shen Shanbao
- Shen Yue
- Shen Quanqi
- Shi Zhi"index finger"
- Shih-Te, "Pick-Up"
- Shih-wu, "Stonehouse"
- Shivaza Iasyr, wrote in the Dungan dialect
- Shu Ting
- Sima Xiangru
- Song Yu
- Su Shi
- Su Xiaoxiao
- Shang Ting
T
- Tao Qian, also known as Tao Yuanming
W
- Wang Anshi
- Wang Bo
- Wang Can
- Wang Changling
- Wang Rong
- Wang Wei, the "Poet Buddha"
- Wang Wei
- Wang Yi-Ch'eng, poet
- Wang Yun
- Wei Yuan
- Wei Zhuang
- Wen Tingyun
- Wen Yiduo
- Wu Cheng'en, Ming novelist, poet
- Wu Jiaji
- Wu Zao
X
- Xi Chuan
- Xi Kang
- Xi Xi
- Xiao Gang
- Xie Lingyun
- Xie Tiao
- Xie Xiangnan
- Xin Qiji
- Xu Lizhi
- Lady Xu Mu
- Xu Zhi Mo 1895–1931, melancholic poet of early 20th century
- Xu Zihua
- Xue Tao 768-831
Y
- Yang Jiong
- Yang Lian
- Yang Wanli
- Yang Xiong
- Yao Shouzhong
- Yao Sui
- John Yau
- Chia-ying Yeh
- Yu Xin
- Yu Xiuhua
- Yu Xuanji
- Yuan Hongdao
- Yuan Zhen
- Yuan Zhongdao
Z
- Zhai Yongming
- Zhang Heng
- Zhang Hua
- Zhang Ji
- Zhang Ji
- Zhang Jiuling
- Zhang Xu
- Zhang Yaotiao
- Zhao Luanluan
- Zhao Luorui
- Zhang Zhidong
- Zheng Min
- Zheng Xiaoqiong
- Zheng Yunduan
- Zhu Shuzhen
- Zhuo Wenjun
- Zuo Si