
A thousand years ago these poems were meant to be *seen* on paper and *heard* aloud, not scrolled past as plain text. Tyokiie's new Chinese poetry feature tries to give them back some of that — every poem sits on its own ink-wash painting, you can find any poet or dynasty in a tap, and the most loved verses become quiet, ambient videos.

## An ink-wash reader for every poem

Open any poem and it appears on a misty landscape painted in the classical 水墨 (ink-wash) style — a different scene for each poem, drawn to match its mood. The verse is set large in a reading serif; the poet, dynasty and anthology sit under the title; the poem's themes hang as small chips at the foot of the page.

![The Tyokiie poem reader — a Tang poem on an AI-painted ink-wash backdrop](https://storage.googleapis.com/www-tyolab-com-blog-assets/images/blog/2026/09/chinese-classical-poetry-reimagined-in-tyokiie/reader.png)

The whole corpus of the 唐诗三百首 (Three Hundred Tang Poems) is here, with thousands more Tang and Song poems available as small downloadable packs. Once a pack is on the phone it reads fully offline.

## Search by poet, title, or dynasty

The corpus is large, so search is built to match how people actually look for a poem — by who wrote it, by its title, or within a single dynasty. A field selector switches between **All / Author / Title**, and a dynasty filter narrows the search to one era.

![Faceted poetry search — filter by field and dynasty](https://storage.googleapis.com/www-tyolab-com-blog-assets/images/blog/2026/09/chinese-classical-poetry-reimagined-in-tyokiie/search.png)

Under the hood it is a full-text index over every poem's title, body and poet. It also understands **both Simplified and Traditional characters** — type 靜夜思 or 静夜思 and you land on the same poem — and the whole interface is localized into 16 languages, so a reader anywhere can navigate it in their own.

## Ambient poetry videos

The most famous poems also become short, meditative videos: the ink painting drifts with a slow camera, the verse is brushed on column by column, snow or leaves fall, and a solo *guqin* plays underneath. They are made for the vertical screen — good for a quiet minute, or to fall asleep to.

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## Painted by a small GPU in the next room

None of the artwork is stock. Each backdrop is generated locally with FLUX on a single RTX 3060 in the classical ink-wash style — the same on-prem pipeline we wrote about in [Now it paints Chinese ink landscapes on the same RTX 3060](/blog/2026/09/09-now-it-paints-chinese-ink-landscapes-on-the-same-rtx-3060/). The music is original, composed for each mood; the poems themselves are public-domain classics.

## Try it

The Chinese poetry feature is live now in Tyokiie on Google Play. Open **Explore → Poetry**, pick a dynasty, and start reading.

[Get Tyokiie on Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.tyo.wiki.android)


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Tyokiie's new Chinese poetry feature: an ink-wash poem reader, search by poet, title or dynasty, and ambient guqin poetry videos.

Tyokiie now brings 唐诗三百首 and thousands more classical Chinese poems to your phone — each on an AI-painted ink-wash backdrop, searchable by poet, title, or dynasty, with ambient guqin poetry videos.

Tag: Chinese Poetry

Tag: Chinese Poetry

Chinese Classical Poetry, Reimagined in Tyokiie