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Are Chinese exercise names usually drawn from poetry?

Chinese exercise naming varies between exercise series and resists a single explanation based on poetic references.

Question

Are Chinese operation and exercise names mostly based on poems?

Short answer

It depends on the exercise series; there is no single naming practice that covers them all.

Notes

Chinese exercise naming varies between exercise series. The reply only partly agrees with the audience comment about poetic names. The naming and structure of these exercises formed the subject of a colleague's doctoral thesis.