  We collect nine corpora of representative Chinese poetry for the time span of
1046 BCE and 1644 CE for studying the history of Chinese words, collocations,
and patterns. By flexibly integrating our own tools, we are able to provide new
perspectives for approaching our goals. We illustrate the ideas with two
examples. The first example show a new way to compare word preferences of
poets, and the second example demonstrates how we can utilize our corpora in
historical studies of the Chinese words. We show the viability of the tools for
academic research, and we wish to make it helpful for enriching existing
Chinese dictionary as well.
