Chinese Poetess: Li Qingzhao

Her life during the Song Dynasty was carefree and surrounded by books. She was happy to marry a man she loved. She and her husband enjoyed travelling and collecting books. Her poems during this period of  her life were exceptionally romantic. After her husband passed away, her poems became sad and full of despondence. Many of her poems refer to very small details of Chinese women's lives. She had a very keen eye for details. To the Tune of Rinsing Silk Stream

Saddened by the dying spring, I am too weary to rearrange my hair. Plum flowers, newly fallen, drift about the courtyard in the evening wind. The moon looks pale and light clouds float to and fro. Incense lies idle in the jade duck-shaped burner. The cherry-red bed-curtain is drawn close, concealing its tassels. Can tung-hsi horn still ward off the cold?*  Qingzhao (Chinese: 李清照) 1084 – ca 1155/1156, alternatively 1081 – c. 1141, pseudonym Householder of Yi'an (易安居士), was a Chinese writer and poet in the Song dynasty. She is considered as one of the greatest poets in Chinese history.