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The Relationship Between Meaning, Images, And Words Of Yang Wanli's Poetics, Ruiqing Li
The Relationship Between Meaning, Images, And Words Of Yang Wanli's Poetics, Ruiqing Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Illustrating the system of meaning, images, and words from The Book of Changes, Yang Wanli concludes that one should seek images through and within words, and Tao through and within images. Applying this philosophical logic to poetic logic, Yang reaches the conclusion that in that case, wan xiang bi lai (you can see all images in your head), and yi zai ju zhong (what you intend to convey has been expressed in sentences) help form rigorously structured poetics with Confucian tradition of meaning and words. Based on Yang's unique theory of mind-material relationship and his favor to natural imagery, wan …
"Establishing Xiang To Fully Express Idea" And Chinese Aesthetic Culture, Dakang Ma
"Establishing Xiang To Fully Express Idea" And Chinese Aesthetic Culture, Dakang Ma
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"Daxiang (great image)" and "Xiangwang (beings without trace)" are a state of "Non-Objectivity". Through imitation and imagination, the relationship between human and nature is transformed from object relationship to non-object relationship, which ultimately leads to human understanding of "Tao". This is the meaning of "establishing Xiang to fully express idea". "Yixiang (image)", "Yijing (ideo-mood-imagery)" and "Jingjie (state or realm)" are the fields composed of "Xiang" and "Daxiang", which can be called "Xiang-Daxiang". "Xiang-Daxiang" is the cell of the Chinese aesthetic culture and it produces the unique character of Chinese aesthetic culture, and also determines the unique way of thinking and …
Word-Image-Meaning: Unique Discourse In Chinese Culture And Aesthetics, Fa Zhang
Word-Image-Meaning: Unique Discourse In Chinese Culture And Aesthetics, Fa Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Image is unique in the theory of word-image-meaning in Chinese culture. Word, Image and meaning are interconnect and at the same time autonomous whether in Zhouyi philosophy or aesthetics. The theory of word-image-meaning in aesthetics took form in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and evolved into the theory of "visay" in the Tang Dynasty because of its interaction with the Buddhist theory of visay, thus having completed its aesthetic turn and established the structure of "the visay within word-visay" (scene-image-affection-meaning) and "the visay beyond visay" (including scenery beyond scenery, image beyond image, and meaning beyond meaning. )