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==Works== ===Poems=== Ma Zhiyuan's ''sanqu'' poem "Autumn Thoughts" ({{lang|zh|秋思}}), composed to the metric pattern Tianjingsha ({{lang|zh|天淨沙}}), uses ten images in twenty-two monosyllables to preamble a state of emotion, and is considered as the penultimate{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} piece in Chinese poetry to convey the typical Chinese male literati's melancholy during late autumn: :{{lang|zh|《秋思》}} ''Autumn Thoughts'' :{{lang|zh|枯藤老樹昏鴉。}} Over old trees wreathed with rotten vines fly evening crows; :{{lang|zh|小橋流水人家。}} Under a small bridge near a cottage a stream flows; :{{lang|zh|古道西風瘦馬。}} On ancient road in the west wind a lean horse goes. :{{lang|zh|夕陽西下,斷腸人在天涯。}} Westward declines the sun; Far, far from home is the heartbroken one. ===Plays=== Only seven of his 15 plays are extant, of which four have been translated into English:<ref name="CiHai"/> * ''Autumn in Han Palace'', {{lang|zh|漢宮秋}} (Full title: ''Breaking a Troubling Dream: A Lone Goose in Autumn over the Palaces of Han'', {{lang|zh|破幽夢孤雁漢宮秋}}). This play tells the story of Han Emperor [[Emperor Yuan of Han|Yuandi]] and [[Wang Zhaojun]], and is considered the best example of Yuan theatre.<ref>{{cite book|title=Chinese Theatre |first= Jin |last=Fu |date= 2012 |isbn=9780521186667|publisher=Cambridge University Press |author-link=Fu Jin|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=_A3t61VgNXkC&pg=PA31 |pages=31–32}}</ref> * [[Lü Dongbin#Yellow Millet Dream|''The Yellow-Millet Dream'']], {{lang|zh|黃粱夢}} (Full title: ''On the Road to Handan, Awakening from a Dream Dreamt While Cooking Millet'', {{lang|zh|邯鄲道省悟黃粱夢}}) * ''[[Yueyang Tower]]'', {{lang|zh|岳陽樓}} (Full title: ''Lü Dongbin Gets Drunk Three Times in Yueyang Tower'', {{lang|zh|呂洞賓三醉岳陽樓}}) * ''Tears on the Blue Gown'', {{lang|zh|青衫淚}} (Full title: ''The Overseer of Jiangzhou: Tears on the Blue Gown'', {{lang|zh|江州司馬青衫淚}}) * {{lang|zh|任風子}} (Full title: {{lang|zh|馬丹陽三度任風子}}) * {{lang|zh|薦福碑}} (Full title: {{lang|zh|半夜雷轟薦福碑}}) * {{lang|zh|陳搏高臥}} (Full title: {{lang|zh|西華山陳搏高臥}})
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