Cold Mountain And Its Poetry Studies

The article of Hanshan and Hanshan's poems includes four parts, the preface, the former section,the latter section and the appendix.The preface comments on past and present situations of Hanshan's studing,consisting of four sides,the circulating,editting and editions of Hanshan's poems,Hanshan's poems and Hanshan, ideas and styles of Hanshan's poems and spreading of Hanshan's poems and Hanshan Style. The former section of "probing" centering on legends of Hanshan , points that materials about Hanshan are essentially a process of initiating and developing of legends. Hanshan's image developed from someone who cultivated himself according to the Tao's doctrine to the embodiment of Manjusri Bodhisattva,and was respected as "Two Sages" with Shide who was the embodiment of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.Later Hanshshan,Shide and Fenggan who was the embodiment of Maitreya were regarded as"Three Hermits" or "three Sages". The story of Hanshan and Shide spreading into the folk was blending with the legend of Wanhui, and surperseded for his "God of Harmony". During the process,characters were enriched and plot were complicated. The second chapter of the part also discusses three small problems about Hanshan.The latter section of "interpreting" centering on Hanshan's poem, probes into their religious emotion and aesthetic transcendence. The first chapter develops that Hanshan' poems was the religious manifestation of human's spirit by analyzing the Buddhism poems and Taoism poems in Hanshan's poems. The second chapter explores the society which was dirty and sinful and the nature which was clean and pure in Hanshan's poems. The aesthetic emotion in Hanshan's poems was merged with the religious faith and the two were mutually transforming. At the end of the section, the author raises that the prefect merge of religious saving and aesthetic transcendence is exactly the charm of Hanshan's poem.The appendix examines the different accepting of Hanshan's poems in China, Japan,Korea and America, indicating that the splendour and the chance provided by history and times are causes of spreading of Hanshan's poems.