The following is a list of Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the languages of China.
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A
- Ai Qing
B
- Bai Juyi or Bo Juyi
- Consort Ban
- Ban Gu (32–92 A.D.)
- 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 (1300–1375), Japanese poet who wrote in Chinese, a figure in "Japanese Literature of the Five Mountains" (literature in Chinese written in Japan)
- Cui Hao, Tang dynasty poet
D
- Dai Biaoyuan
- Dai Wangshu
- Dong Xiaowan
- Du Fu 杜甫, the "Poet Sage"
- Du Mu (803-852), 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 (1045–1105)
- Huarui Furen
- Huang Zongxi
I
- Ido Reizan
J
- Jao Tsung-I
- Ji Xian (b. 1903), 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 (Li Po), the "Poet Immortal"
- Li He
- Li Qiao
- Li Qingzhao
- Li Shangyin
- Li Yu (Li Houzhu)
- 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 (1902–1963), leading Taiwanese modernist
X
- Xi Chuan
- Xi Kang (or Ji Kang)
- Xi Xi
- Xiao Gang (Emperor Jianwen of Liang)
- 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 (poet from Hubei)
- Zhang Ji (poet from Jiangnan)
- Zhang Jiuling
- Zhang Xu
- Zhang Yaotiao (Tang Geji poet)
- Zhao Luanluan (Yuan dynasty poet)
- Zhao Luorui
- Zhang Zhidong
- Zheng Min
- Zheng Xiaoqiong
- Zheng Yunduan
- Zhu Shuzhen
- Zhuo Wenjun
- Zuo Si
See also
- Chinese poetry
- Song Dynasty poets (list)
- List of Three Hundred Tang Poems poets
- Tang Dynasty poets (list)
- List of Chinese authors
- List of Chinese women writers
- List of Hong Kong poets