毛泽东成为闻名中外的大诗人,得力于他对优秀文艺作品的广读博览,得益于他对古典诗词艺术的深厚修养。早在湖南第一师范学校读书时,毛泽东就在《讲堂录》中工工整整地全文抄录了屈原的《离骚》和《九歌》。1957年,他还请人搜集了50余册各种版本的《楚辞》以及与<楚辞》有关的著作给他。据不完全统计,自《诗经》以下,我国历代的诗词曲赋,他差不多都读过。仅在中南海毛泽东故居的大量藏书中,他圈划批注过的就有历代 Mao Zedong became a famous big poet at home and abroad, effective in his extensive reading of excellent literary and artistic works, thanks to his profound cultivation of classical poetry and art. As early as Hunan First Normal School, Mao Zedong in the “Lecture Record” in the whole full copy of Qu Yuan’s “Li Sao” and “Nine Songs.” In 1957, he also invited people to collect more than 50 volumes of various versions of “Chu Ci” and books related to “Chu Ci” to him. According to incomplete statistics, since the Book of Songs, he has read almost all the poems and songs in ancient China. Only in a large collection of books in the former residence of Mao Zedong in Zhongnanhai, he circled and annotated there were generations