This is the largest structured Chinese classical poetry dataset on GitHub, containing ~55,000 Tang poems, ~260,000 Song poems, ~21,000 Song ci (lyric poetry), and additional classical texts (Four Books and Five Classics, Book of Songs, Chu Ci, Yuan opera, etc.). The data is distributed as JSON files organized by dynasty and genre, with each poem containing author, title, and paragraph fields. The repository serves as a foundational dataset for Chinese NLP, digital humanities, and cultural heritage projects. The codebase is minimal — essentially a data repository with a JSON validation test (test_poetry.py), a simple data loader (loader/data_loader.py), and a web scraper for Song ci (宋词/UpdateCi.py). The data itself is the product of web scraping from sources like ctext.org and other online repositories, with manual curation and error correction over time. The repository includes an 'error' directory containing records with data quality issues (corrupted characters, missing content, etc.), which demonstrates transparency about data limitations. The data loader provides a basic abstraction for extracting poem bodies across different datasets, but the overall engineering is straightforward. The value lies entirely in the data breadth and accessibility — no complex transformations, feature engineering, or analytical pipelines are present. The repository is widely used (52K+ stars) as a reference dataset for Chinese poetry generation, analysis, and educational applications.