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Tianjin Sha Qiu Si. Tianjingsha Qiu Si is the most popular of Ma Zhiyuan's works. The song is only five sentences and twenty-eight characters, and the language is extremely concise but the capacity is huge. Known as "the father of Qiu Si" by later generations, it is one of the most mature works in China's classical poetry. Ma Zhiyuan was a drama writer, essayist and essayist in Yuan Dynasty. Together with Guan Hanqing, Zheng Guangzu and Bai Pu, they are also called "the four masters of Yuan Opera".