Word clouds, which I’m sure you’ve all seen, are created using wordcloud, a famous Python library. This article will detail how to use wordcloud to create a word cloud for “Dream of the Red Chamber,” one of China’s Four Great Classical Novels.

1. Preparation

This involves three parts:

2. The wordcloud and jieba libraries, which can be installed using pip install wordcloud and pip install jieba.

3. Preparing a Chinese font file.

The .txt text file and font file are bundled together for your convenience to replicate this tutorial’s example.

2. Drawing the “Dream of the Red Chamber” Word Cloud

Here’s the code directly:

    from wordcloud import WordCloud
    import jieba
    text = "".join(jieba.cut(open("红楼梦.txt").read()))
    wordcloud = WordCloud(font_path="kaibold.ttf").generate(text)

    # Display the generated image:
    plt.imshow(wordcloud, interpolation='bilinear')
    plt.axis("off")
    plt.margins(x=0, y=0)
    plt.show()

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