CentralNotice Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article contains Ruby annotation. Without proper rendering support , you may see transcriptions in parentheses after the character instead of ruby glosses. This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2008) The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den ( simplified Chinese : 施氏食狮史 ; traditional Chinese : 施氏食獅史 ; pinyin : Shī Shì shí shī shǐ ; literally: "The Story of Shi Eating Lions") is a 92-character modern poem written in Classical Chinese by Yuen Ren Chao (1892–1982), in which every syllable has the sound shi (in different tones ) when read in modern Mandarin Chinese . It is a famous example of con...