People love to call Li Qing an apostle of poetry. He has played a leading role in popularizing Chinese poetry throughout the world. Li Qings realistic concern with life and his unaffected pursuit of the true, the good and the beauty become the soul of his poetry. Reading Li Qings poems means to know him and to know his simple and noble character - Liu Zhangqiu The image of war rises from the red pervading the spring of 99 in Kosovo; the red flowers are a reminiscence of the Kosovo peonies; ...

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