Ts'ao Sung

"Tsao is noted for finally passing his chin-shih examination when he was over seventy along with four other septuagenarians. In his poetry he took Chia Tao as his model."

"泽国江山入战图， 生民何计乐樵苏； 凭君莫话封侯事， 一将功成万骨枯。"

"For already I have learned, that a generals fame stands on a pile of dry bones Of what were once the people."

"[A Protest in the Sixth Year of Chien Fu is] perhaps the most widely-known short antiwar poem in Chinese literature."

"The years of the were the golden age of Chinese poetry. Nearly fifty thousand poems written during these 300 years are still extant. ...Up to 755 A.D. the Tang Dynasty was in the heyday of its political and military power and its emperors waged a whole series of aggressive wars against Chinas neighbours. Many were the soldiers who died on the frontiers in these wars, and many were the widowed! Numerous poems were written about the frontier wars and about women lamenting their soldier husbands. Many of the verses composed in the Tang Dynasty and frequently on the lips of the people bitterly exposed the effects of unjust wars on different classes and types of men. For example:"