The Vacuousness Born

"Xu (the empty) and shi (the solid)" is one of the important categories in Chinese philosophy and aesthetics. On the one hand, "xu and shi" in Weiqi theories has inherited the thinking approaches in traditional Chinese literary theory, being characteristic of emphasizing on "xu" and "wu (the nil)"; one the other hand, through the playing process in Weiqi, "xu" and "shi" are two contradictory categories, but interdependent and coexistent by combining each other at the same time. This kind of combination is the existing foundation of Weiqi. The mutual combination and coexistence of "xu" and "shi", "xing (the form)" and "shi (the momentum)" is also relevant with the "jingjie (ambit)" in the artistic theory, while the "jingjie" in Weiqi theories has its specific connotations. The following two main chapters will be included in my thesis to make it detailed and clearer.In the first chapter, traditional Chinese philosophy and artistic theory, and the category of "xu and shi" in Weiqi theories will be expounded respectively. A clear description of how the category of the category "xu and shi" in traditional philosophy has been extended into the field of traditional artistic theory and Weiqi theory, and an exposing of the connotation and denotation of this category depending on this will be done tentatively in the historical examination.In the second chapter, it will be pointed out in the way of comparing "xu and shi" in literary theories and Weiqi theories that "shi" is also necessary while "xu" is accented in Weiqi theories, so two sets of languages appear in Weiqi theories, that is, the language of literary theories and the one in the military field, while Weiqi theories is of such a particularity different from literary theories in which "xu" has been emphasized ever since. However, the "jingjie" produced in the mutual generating of "xu and shi" must be involved in a surpassing process of "leading 'shi' into 'xu'" and "changing 'shi' into 'xu'", and then the "jingjie" of "reaching into the sublimity" will be realized, which is just the life ambits of Wenqi players and men of letters. Nevertheless, because Weiqi is a battle with a winner and a loser, the "jingjie" of Weiqi is unavoidably contradictory insides.Weiqi and literary theories have something in common in thinking and expressing, but the differences of the objects used to debate Weiqi and literature attributes to their respective particularities. On the whole, the comparative study of "xu and shi" in ancient literary and Weiqi theories will provide some beneficial references to the theoretical studies of traditional Chinese literary and artistic theories.