The Jiuxian Spirit Of 《Chuang Tzu》and It’s Projection On Literature

In “Chuang-tzu”, the sentences related to wine are few and seldom observed byscholars, however, through the ancient history of literature works in China, we canfind that many poems have a certain connection with these sentences. Generallyspeaking, the connection is mainly reflected in three aspects: first, the ignorance toConfucian morality and courtesy of wine; second, the enjoyment of drinking wine andthe real pursuit of wine; third, the construction and eagerness of the spiritual home.And the corresponding with them are these words: forgetting、real、dream、immortaland happiness which could be shown in the “Chuang-tzu” most often. This paperconducts the analysis and classification of the connotation of the words appearing in“Chuang-tzu”, carries out the connection with these poetry related to wine in the lateliterary works obtains certain influencing relationships. Then it gets that the Jiuxianspirit originated in the “Chuang-tzu”.This paper points out that there is a internal logic in these five important words“forgetting”“dream”“real”“immortal” and “happiness”,then first analyzes that ifwanting to reach the state of “drinking as the pleasure”, and obtaining “the real tastein wine”, one should forget or get rid of a lot of interference and restraint to getspiritual freedom and forgetting is the one throughout the text; the this paper analyzesthe connection of “dream” and wine in “Chuang-tzu”. we take forgetting as acondition, immortal is the existence mode,then we should understand that real is thecore of Jiuxian spirit, Drinking behavior without true nature is impossible to reach theJiuxian spirit; spiritual discipline is the method of immortal in “Chuang-tzu”, Thispaper point out that immortal is the existence mode of Jiuxian spirit whose specificimpact on late generations is reflected in Tao Yuanming’s “the Peach Garden” andWang Ji’s “zuixiang”; Finally, gaining happiness is the inevitable result afterexperiencing the above aspects. In this process,“wine” is the only related media frombeginning to the end, or the only catalyst. Through the analysis of Chinese ancientalcohol-related literature from the perspective of Jiuxian spirit, we can betterunderstand other Chinese ancient writers who liked drinking and their literary works.