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"The Words Fail to Convey the Meaning": the Unique Spirit of Chinese Poetic Theory

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This abstract was translated from “言不尽意”:中国诗学的独特精神
Logical start of the unique spirit of Chinese poetic theory of " the words fail to convey the meaning" is the culture of Chinese
ancient sacrificial rites and the philosophic idea of "Heaven and man make one". Through mulling over man's survival and looking ahead man's ideal existence, the ancient representatives of Chinese idea and knowledge made efforts to seek the basis of the man's extempore survival and guarantee the man's poetic existence of "getting to Tao", "forgetting" and "playing" and tried hard to save man from an abyss of misery. So they talked much over " the words fail to convey the meaning". The unique spirit of Chinese poetic theory of "the words fail to convey the meaning" found on the basis of the culture of Chinese ancient sacrificial rites, the philosophic idea of "Heaven and man make one" and the man's ideal existence of "getting to Tao", "forgetting" and "playing". The core of "the words fail to convey the meaning" is the surpassing spirit of courting the valuable real life, refusing the vulgar degenerate unreal life and encouraging the poetic say and the poetic inhabitation. The unique spirit of Chinese poetic theory of "the words fail to convey to meaning" showed clearly the originality of the Chinese poetic theory, the overall characteristic of the Chinese poetic theory: whole, experience, sensitivity, summing up the major side and the main thread of the concept, the works and the perception of the Chinese poems.
Published: March 30, 2005
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