Scattered Perspectives On Ancient Chinese Poetry And Jade Culture

Jade culture is a special culture of our nation,it is not only a kind of material culture but also a kind of spiritual culture.There is an inseparable relationship between jade culture and ancient Chinese poetry,which is not only a kind of relationship between culture and language,but also between prototype and expression.Therefore this paper tries to summarize and research it,and focus on the "the Book of Songs","the Songs of Chu",the poetry of Tang Dynasty,the ci-poetry of Song Dynasty etc.to describe the significance relationship between each otherIn the prehistoric times which the characters did not appear,our ancestors pick out the jade from stone in the process of production and give it the mysterious meaning.Such culture consciousness of jade beauty help the human beings to get rid of uncivilized.The concept of soul jade worship in the prehistoric age is mainly from the fear of the people on the nature and the witch intended to promote.The witch using the jade to please the gods and forming a religious ceremony.With the advancement of civilization,jade has been integrated into the national consciousness and eventually be included in the laws and regulations of nation.If we say that the appreciation of the beauty of the jade of prehistoric people is only a kind of perceptual knowledge,then the Confucian interpretation of the beauty of jade shows a rational understanding.The jade culture of Confucian is one of the form of traditional jade culture in civilization era and the main idea of it include two aspects of "moral jade"and "rite jade".These two aspects are based on the original worship of jade and that is a continuation of the prehistoric jade culture."moral jade" is a kind of the concept of jade and "rite jade" is a kind of behavior with jade.The conception of moral etiquette of it has some enlightment to the construction of spiritual civilization today.Taoism is a native religion and supernatural ideology is one of the main sources of it.Confucianism pays attention to society,while Taoism attaches importance to individual.The pursuit of longevity and life freedom reflects the ultimate thought of Taoist.The Taoist constructed a desirable world which as clean as ice and as pure as jade.It is an echo of prehistoric jade culture,and also deepened the concept of jade worship of people to a certain extent.Eating jade to keep one's health is one of the important features of Taoist jade culture.Taoism believes that if the one eat gold and his life as longer as gold,and eat jade have the same result.This idea is very popular in the southern and northern dynasty because of the fear of die and leading a life to pleasure through escaping from the reality.It is the weakness of human nature.In the process of the practice of self-cultivation,Taoism has created a lot of "jade terms" and some of which are transformed into literary images.This is another form of Taoist jade culture.Buddhism is a foreign religion.The jade statues mainly reflects the confluence between Buddhism and traditional jade culture.Buddhism is the typical cases that attaches great importance to create idols.The jade statues making not only firmly grasped the psychology of the worship of the local nationality,but also conveyed the doctrine in this special way.There is a close relationship between the thought of treasure of Buddhist and jade culture.Jade is a beautiful stone,"Qibao Buddhism"belongs to a broader sense of jade.It different from the thought of jade of Taoism.The jade as a literary symbol written in the Buddhist verses of poetry is a significant characteristic of Chinese Buddhism.It is reflected the convergence between the Buddhism and traditional j ade culture from one aspects.It is mainly based on the idea of prehistoric jade fetish of absorption and utilization of Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism.It is a continuation of the concept of the spirit of the jade worship.It reflects the deformation between culture and culture.The penetration and influence of the jade culture to the classical poetry is represented by the transfer and creation of the conceptual meaning.It is showing a kind of anthropological concern of literary.The Book of Songs is one of the thirteen classic works of Confucian.It directly reflects the Confucian concept of jade culture and highlights the etiquette and moral of jade.It is a reflection of civilization of Zhou dynasty.There is a close relationship between the Songs of Chu and Chu culture in worship.It is mainly embodied in two aspects:one is the penetrate of Confucian jade culture;and the other is the concept of worship jade of the Chu culture.Jade and vanilla is closely related to primitive religious worship and the meaning in the Songs of Chu are not the same.The vanilla focused on the performance of a kind of pursuit of good ideas and the jade is more inclined to show the people's inherent virtue.The former is a dynamic process while the latter is a static representation.The thought of using jade of immortal in the Songs of Chu is similar to the Taoist's which is the echo of the prehistoric jade culture.It can be said that the thought of using jade of the Book of Songs and the Songs of Chu has obvious religious character and it different from the view of jade from the perspective of literature aesthetics.Poetry is the art of language and the art also is a kind of language.Language is the link of society and the carrier of keeping culture.Jade image is a close touch between poetry and jade culture.There are more than six thousand poems that include the jade image in the Tang Dynasty and more than three hundred images of jade.These jade images not only carry the meta discourse of prehistoric jade culture,but also play a certain role in cultural reconstruction of ideology of people.Taoism was popular in Tang Dynasty,so there are a lot of poetry about it.In these works the thought of jade deity are performed in the image of jade.In addition,Tang Dynasty is also an imperial era that selecting talents through examination,the moral jade of Confucian has gradually become the artistic thought of the ability of jade in poetry.It reflects the changes of the social environment have an effect on the connotation of the language.Jade is a symbol of power and stand for the noble.These ideas is performed correspondingly in some poetry.All above shows the infiltration and influence of Confucianism and Taoism on the image of jade.Culture rely on the expression,the image of jade is the result of multilevel encoding of the prehistoric jade culture.It seems inevitable that the arbitrariness and the unconscious of writing in the diachronic encoding process and even sometimes exhibit the critical state of a culture.There are a large number of such cultural critical image in the poetry of Tang Dynasty,such as"Yushu" referred to as "Yushuhoutinghua",which different from the meaning of artistic prototype of "xianshu".It is merged with the sense of rise and fall of the history.For another example,the image of "Yuguan" which will be a permanent memory of historical scene that the west jade is transported to the east,but it is an important part of Frontier culture as an image in poetry,which alienated from the jade culture,etc.All this shows that the right of writing can control the spread of archetypal culture.In a word,the jade image of poems of the Tang Dynasty appear in the form of "jade ×" usually.Jade is an adjective roots,which seems to contain an ancient meaning and it characterized by "root metaphor".Jade is a kind of ancient wealth,which is a sign of people's material well-being life and a symbol of riches.It is one of reason for the formation of wealth of ci-poetry of Song Dynasty to description a large number of jade and gold images.With the advanced development of city economy in Song Dynasty,jade as a commodity enter trading market which offer a visual effect for the hedonic environment of urbanite.Such as the imagination of building made by gold and jade,the description of drinking vessel made by gold and jade,as well as the portray of ornament made by gold and jade and so on,which reflects the luxury of ci-poetry from different aspects.These descriptions are not all true,but also reflects the psychology of luxury of poets which embody the exaggeration of consumer behavior.The relationship between jade and female culture put up a transfer of abstract ideas mostly.The meaning of symbol point object,a property of an object.The attribute of jade gentle is not only a carrier of placid of gentleman,but also represent the role characteristics of female.Heidegger said:"poetry is the establishment of existence by means of words.“Most of the image of jade with regard to women in the poems of the Tang Dynasty performs in face while the description of the female is more refined in ci-poetry which involving almost every part of the female body and reflects the image of women in the eyes of men from different sides."all the concepts have a characteristic that always carry the meaning of their origin." The image of jade relate to the women fully embodies the original aesthetic features of jade that is a born of beauty.Jade is the synonymous with gentle,soft,beautiful and faithful etc.therefore as a symbol of lexical encoding which created many words with these characteristics.The text has the function of communication between ancient and modern and inheriting civilization.But the text also limited the words like"yiyuweixiang","lianxiangxiyu" etc to the visual field.It produce an emotional meaning that promote the formation of graceful style of ci-poetry to a certain extent.There has a close relationship between jade culture and classical poetics.It is the main features of literary thought of Confucian that the words are the voice of the mind and the writing mirrors the writer.It is a common feature of both to associate the author with the style of the concept of poetry and of prose of Confucian to promote a kind of article useful to society.It has a profound interpretation of literature ethics concept of Confucian in WenXinDiaoLong of LiuXie.There is no necessary connection between the virtue of jade and the morality of prose of Confucian.However,in the process of discussing the concept of morality,LiuXie will be connected with each other,reflecting the characteristics of linguistic criticism to a certain extent.LiuXie expressed his desire to pursue a kind of article which symbolizes the gentleman from one side.There are a large number of phenomena of review articles with jade,on the one hand it is reflected in the relationship betweenmorality and the article;on the other hand it is a pure aesthetic art of jade.It is the main development direction of the theory of poetry and prose to show the importance of pure aesthetic attributes of jade after Wei and Jin dynasties.It happen to coincide with the tendency of the literature to get rid of the moral attachment and improve the independence gradually.It is prosperity of poetry in Tang Dynasty,there are two main forms of poetics including "yiwenlunshi" and "yishilunshi".Jade as a theoretical symbol has different performance in the two way of poetics.The former is mainly characterized by direct metaphor,the latter takes the image of reasoning as the main features.The comment of analogy of the relationship between jade and stone,the way of making jade and the beauty of jade etc that is more common in the theoretical expression.In addition,jade has certain rhetoric art as a kind of literary symbol such as metaphor,metonymy,description and reflection and so on.There are helpful to the image of jade in the poetry of colorful performance.