Editing Ma Zhiyuan (section)

{{Short description|Chinese poet and  playwright (c.1250–1321)}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Ma (surname)|Ma]]|lang=Chinese}}
{{Chinese|t=馬致遠|s=马致远|p=Mǎ Zhìyuǎn}}
[[File:Statue of Ma Zhiyuan, Former Residence of Ma Zhiyuan.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Statue of Ma Zhiyuan in the Former Residence of Ma Zhiyuan in Beijing.]]
'''Ma Zhiyuan''' ({{zh|t=馬致遠|s=马致远|first=t}}, {{circa}} 1250–1321), [[courtesy name]] '''Dongli''' ({{zh|t=東籬|s=东篱|first=t}}), Chinese dramatist, playwright, and poet during the [[Yuan dynasty]].<ref name="CiHai">Cihai: Page 1132-1133.</ref>

Among his achievements is the development and popularizing of the ''[[sanqu]]'' ({{lang|zh|散曲}}) lyric type of [[Classical Chinese poetry forms]]. The poem "Autumn Thoughts" ({{lang|zh|秋思}}) is the most widely known of his sanqu poems.<ref name="CiHai"/> 

His sanqu poems were collected in the book "'''Dongli Yuefu'''" ({{zh|t=東籬樂府|s=东篱乐府|l=The Eastern Fence Poetry|c=|first=t}}), where there were 104 single ''sanqu'' (Xiaoling 小令) and 17 song suites (Taoshu 套數).