But these Cantonese-speaking students have an advantage over Putonghua speakers when it comes to writing such poems. Classical poems sound more realistic in Cantonese, which is more similar to the ...

The poets were primarily Chinese who spoke the Cantonese and Toisanese dialects. When read aloud, many of the poems rhyme in those dialects, but they do not always rhyme in Mandarin. You can listen to ...

The first word of each of the Cantonese poem’s 11 lines spelled out “black cops, hope your whole family dies and not one member less”. In an acrostic poem, the first charater of each line ...