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Zhuangzi's Prose Is Still America, The Spirit Of Exploration

Posted on:2008-12-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360215491739Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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Zhuang Zi is a classical literature with fetile imagination, Witty style, superb rhetoric and romantic color. It crestes many figures by imagination and uses them to cognize and reflect the society. It also makes a great influence on the later creative writing.The main artistic style of the prose of Zhuang Zi is freedom. The prose of Zhuang Zi in which there are rich imagination, delicate structure and-fantastic color is full of free spirit of life. Take Xiao Yao You as an example, this paper analyses aesthetic free spirit in prose of Zhuang Zi, discusses the value of the free spirit from personality independence, keeping nature and heaven-human relationship. By this way, this paper elucidates the meaning of emotional freedom, spirit freedom, and aesthetic freedom of Zhuang Zi in modern times.The man temperament of Chinese civilization is the realism thoughts of Confucianists and the romanticism thought of the Taoist school.With the guidance of the two temperaments Chinese culture is characterized by natUre-friendly nature. Art, representing the freedom and liberation of spirit, is the spiritual carrier and main expression of culture, among which the Chinese traditional art is the most free and superorganic one. Chinese traditional art is deeply rooted in the art spirit of Zhuang Zi which realized the sublimation of traditional Chinese Art in nature and the reflection of freedom and nature.The fable is a figure of speech, including noumenon and implication. Zhuang Zi's fables are no exception. The noumenon of Zhuang Zi's fables can be divided into three parts: mythology theme, society theme and nature theme.The logic connection way of noumenon and implication is mode of "one-noumenon-many-fable" and its superiority is showing of fables'gist from many perspectives and side aspects.
Keywords/Search Tags:Zhuang Zi, prose, Art spirit, Fable literature, the freedom
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