The Comprehension Road To Spiritual Homeland--A Interpretation Of Zhuang Zi's Poetic Character

Chinese poetry which possesses its unique theoretical system and ethnological characteristics has a profound tradition. However, for long time, we can not shed the shadow of western standard when we interpret the works of Chinese poem. Therefore, the originality of Chinese poetry is easily overlooked, and it's difficult for Chinese poets to speak out in international arena on an equal footing. The paper explores the root of Chinese poetic wisdom in Chinese cultural classics and unveils Chinese poets' unique way of understanding life and the universe.Zhuang Zi, one of the founding fathers of Chinese poetry inevitably becomes our focal point His value is multi-dimensional. His impact on Chinese literature and art exceed that on Chinese philosophy. The paper is designated to construe Zhuang Zi from a completely new angle, and to reveal the relationship between him and Chinese culture. Zhuang Zi could be considered in broad sense as the poet in cultural contextThe poetic character in a narrow sense in Zhuang Zi and his works, which is the poetic character of prose has been fully studied and discussed. The paper focus on its medium and broad poetic character. The medium poetic character means the mind set, narration, and the way of understanding has poetry's basic distinction, such as intuition, emotion and imagination. The broad poetic character means surpassing the secular society and pursuing the possible ideal. Zhuang Zi with his profundity as a philosopher and passion as a poet, uncovered a spiritual homeland for human beings through plentiful narration from a intercourse of poetic sentiment and philosophy.Zhuang Zi's description of the spiritual homeland is actually of a kind of human existence full of poetic sentiment, which roughly includes three parts: the ideal state of the society; the ideal state of spiritual freedom; the ideal state of the harmonious coexistence of human beings. Meanwhile, Zhuang Zi believed that sensible analysis, construction of language and even the interference of sense organ would undermine the entirety and the original poetic character. Only through pure poetic sentiment will we experience the meaning of life and only through the poetic way will the natural state of life be revealed and will human beings reach the ideal of spiritual homeland. The road to the spiritual homeland is where Zhuang Zi's poetic wisdoms. It includes three parts: the way of mind set is no thought that means return from sensible thought to aesthetic thought; the way of narration is return from sensible speak to poetic speak; the way of understanding is integration of nature and man mat means return from separation of subject and object to integration of subject and objectThe paper tries to prove mat Zhuang Zi is not only a philosopher but also a poet 1n broad sense, and it unveils the poetic character of Chinese philosophy and the compatibility between "philosophy" and "poem" in cultural context.Name: Sun Li (Chinese ancient literature)Directed by: Feng Guo-rong...