1. reciting Chinese poems
2. ShiginShigin (詩吟) is a form of Japanese poetry, which is usually chanted, either individually or within a group. Individual poems are termed gin (吟), and are usually composed of four or more lines of Chinese characters, or kanji (漢字), each line having the same number of characters. Gin with four phrases, each seven characters long (the most common), are classified as shichigon-zekku (七言絶句), literally seven-word quatrains.
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