The Study Of The Space Theories In Ancient Chinese Poetics

This paper deems that there are at least two ways forward on researching orrecognizing the ancient Chinese poetic art:one is to explain the specific ancientpoetry texts and further theoretically induce them;the other is to study the ancientChinese poetics (the poetic theory) and further understand the ancient Chinese poeticart.However,on the basis of the dimension of space,this paper makes an attempt toselect the Fu Bi Xing,Language-Image-Sense,artistic conception and other categoriesfully covered by the ancient Chinese poetics in order to discuss the space or spatialityin the ancient Chinese poetries,and to try to theorize and systematize them so as tofurther disclose the space or spatiality characteristics of the ancient Chinese poeticarts.This paper consists altogether of three parts including eight chapters in totalbesides the Introduction,Conclusion,Ending and Closing words.The first part includes three chapters,and focuses on reinterpreting the Fu,Bi,Xing categories in the ancient Chinese poetics tradition viewing from the spacethinking perspective.This part deems that two fundamental ways of human thinkingare the time and space thinkings while the Fu,Bi and Xing are the way of spacethinking.But they are different because they are differently affected by the timethinking.This is reason why the ancient people emphasized on"Xing"and lookeddown on"Bi"and"Fu".Besides the Introduction,the Chapter One emphasizes oninterpreting"Fu"--as the space thinking of expatiation and expansion and explainsthe time and space thinkings problem related to the first part;the Chapter Two focuseson demonstrating"Bi"--as the space thinking of apposition and metaphor;and theChapter Three discusses"Xing"--as the space thinking of instantaneous andintuition.The second part also includes three chapters and focuses on discussing thetraditional language,image and sense categories viewing from the construction approaches of space.Besides the Introduction,the Chapter Four elaborates on"Language"as"the spatial medium depending on time",and the space grammarrelated to Language and"Word Thinking"and other problems;the Chapter Fivedemonstrates"Image"as the"spatial combination between the Language and Sense",and interprets the"object image,shape image,scene image,sense image,Xing image,literary image,images beyond image"and other concepts of ancient Chinese poetics,which are closely related to Image,and the hnage-Sense combination andImage-Sense thinking problems;and the Chapter Six describes"Sense"which isserved as the"spatial chaos existed depending on hnage",and interprets the"Dao","Qi"and other categories or concepts related to"Sense",as well as introduces thechaos theory,non-ideation composing and etc from the creation of modern Chineseliterature and further gets the conclusion which the"Language,hnage and Sense"arethe approaches of space construction.The third part includes two chapters.Besides the Introduction,the Chapter Sevendiscusses the spatial essence of artistic conception,on the basis of the"Conception"of artistic conception and its spatial characteristics,three primary factors (i.e.,image-sense,falseness-reality and atmosphere) which constitutes the artisticconception and their spatial characteristics,and three main structural hierarchies (i.e.,scene blending,beyond image and language,and beyond Dao)of the artisticconception and their spatial characteristics,and further gets the conclusion which thecalled"artistic conception"is in fact a kind of space,spatial sense or aesthetic space.The Chapter Eight introspects the modernization and generalization problems ofcontemporary related artistic conception viewing from the space or aesthetic spaceperspective,and mainly assesses two six-definitions related to the modern artisticconception and thus stands out the spatial characteristics of the artistic conception.In a word,this paper believes that in view of the ancient Chinese poetic thoughtsthe poetic art is a kind of spatial art and described viewing from the space or spatialprospective.So,the space is a strong dimension to interpret the ancient Chinesepoetics.What's more,the space or spatiality may be the special characteristics of theancient Chinese poetic art. The Ending simply discusses the very important correspondence,rhythm,metrics and other problems which are not presented in the text,and deems that theartistic skill o the ancient Chinese poetics including the correspondence is a kind ofartistic skill or means of space construction.In addition,the problems or shortagesexisted in this paper are discussed in the Closing words.