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Manchu Shamanist Mythology And Ecological Aesthetics, Lijie Yan
Manchu Shamanist Mythology And Ecological Aesthetics, Lijie Yan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Manchu traditional culture of fishing and hunting has maintained a relation of harmonic multi-dimensional coexistence with its natural environment. Shamanic mythology has an animistic philosophical foundation with a primitive poetic thinking, holding nature in awe and veneration. Through constant communication with nature, the human beings are situated in the ecological system, and this means that Manchu life had an ecological aesthetics dimension since early. Manchu shamanism advocates animism, the unity of heaven and earth, and the identity of object and self. In shamanic mythology, the human interacts and keeps a kinship with the nature. Shamans communicate with the human and …
On The Tragic Consciousness Of Chinese Aesthetics, Zhirong Zhu
On The Tragic Consciousness Of Chinese Aesthetics, Zhirong Zhu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In Chinese aesthetics, tragic consciousness shows as the poetic experience of a subject's empathy with objects, and this experience covers the bereavement or life-long separation, which may also reflect in the melancholic sense for the passing of spring and the coming of autumn in Chinese ancient literary works. The tragic consciousnesses of the literati, the hero and the female have their particular characteristics and inherent spirit. In ancient Chinese tragedies is seen a general transition of spirit from the heroic to the common and secular. On the one hand, this tragic consciousness is deeply influenced and constrained by Chinese cultural …
The Tool And The Entity: The Language Philosophy In Zhuangzi's Aesthetics, Xianglin Yan
The Tool And The Entity: The Language Philosophy In Zhuangzi's Aesthetics, Xianglin Yan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Zhuangzi's critique on language exhibits a deep contradiction in his thinking as he considered language to be both a tool and an entity, despite its dialectical nature. Language is a type of poetic spiritual existence and contributes to the production of culture, and the text of Zhuangzi illustrates Zhuangzi's poetic view of language.
Delivered By Aesthetics: The Buddhist Taste In Wang Guowei's Comments On A Dream Of Red Mansions And The Symptoms Of His Aesthetic Thought, Hongxiang Xu, Wei Du
Delivered By Aesthetics: The Buddhist Taste In Wang Guowei's Comments On A Dream Of Red Mansions And The Symptoms Of His Aesthetic Thought, Hongxiang Xu, Wei Du
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Wang Guowei's Comments on A Dream of Red Mansions is far from a simple reproduction of Schopenhauer's philosophy and aesthetics. Wang incorporated his knowledge of Buddhism into the general structure of world academics, in which the individual's humanistic impulses to question the essence of life functioned as the local structures to push its smooth motion and modulate the dominant direction. Different aspects in life such as the attitude toward desire, the cognition of sufferings and the state of deliverance mirrored the mind-nature tradition of Chinese Buddhist thought, and "Buddhist taste" became both the background and intermediary of the fusion of …