noun
poetry talks, such as informal remarks on poetry or poets, a literary genre very popular with the Song and Ming scholars, usually telling why certain famous lines were written and under what circumstances
詩話 [诗话]
Jyutping Pinyin
shī huà
Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old)
a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties