Study Of The Bible Of Changes And Chinese Traditional Conception Of Literature And Art

The Bible of Changes , ranking first in all the classics , has a prestigious position in Confucian classics . As a branch of the study of Confucian classics , the study of The Bible of Changes had an extensive and profound influence on many fields in Chinese ancient thoughts and culture by keeping on accumulating various ideas and wisdom of scholars of past dynasties during its process of development in more than two thousand years . The influence of The Bible of Changes and its study on Chinese traditional conception of literature and art has demonstrated its great importance in terms of scope , depth and permanence and therefore deserves to be studied comprehensively and intensively .This thesis is aimed to study the influence of The Bible of Changes and its study on traditional conception of literature and art . By grasping the essence of The Bible of Changes and by accumulating and sorting out relevant materials in a variety of classics, This thesis tries to identify those elements in traditional literature and art which are believed to have been influenced by the study of The Bible of Changes , and the makes an analysis and finally draws a conclusion as well . This thesis is divided into eight chapters . The first chapter , the introduction, gives a description of relevant researches, way of thinking and study methods of this thesis . The second chapter mainly analyzes the value of The Bible of Changes as an example of literature and art . From chapter three to chapter six , which are main body of the thesis , analyses relating to the influence of the study of The Bible of Changes are made respectively on the origin , development , creation and manifestation of literature and art . These chapters are not only aimed at the feature of the study of The Bible of Changes but also at analyzing the merging of its study and the conception of literature and art . Chanter seven and eight give a summary of the development of such thoughts as are based on The Bible of Changes in the field of literature and art and also reveal its significance in modern times.