The Comparative Study Between Zhuang Zi And Strategies Of The Warring States

The warring states was not only a upheaval era, but also was a flourishing era ofthe cultural and academic, which producing a large number of the splendid reasoningprose and historical prose, such as Zhuang Zi and Strategies of the Warring States.The author comparatively studied the Zhuang Zi and Strategies of the Warring Statesfocus on the nature and content of articles, the articles features, the writing techniquesof articles and other aspects, which Intended to deeply understand the different art ofthe two works, Highlight their personality characteristics and literary achievements Incommon historical background, deeply understand the Chinese academic origin andrealize the enduring artistic charm of the two works after the Qin and Han.This essay mainly includes the following three chapters:Chapter one: Comparing with the nature and content of articles of Zhuang Zi andStrategies of the Warring States. Generally speaking, Zhuang Zi was reasoning prose,while Strategies of the Warring States was historical prose. They all have the featuresof "child" book, but Zhuang Zi was good at Philosophical speculation, whileStrategies of the Warring States had historical nature. The social life of the WarringStates Period was reflected to some extent, historical figures appeared seemingidentical, but there was the difference between "inaction" and "trickery".Chapter two: Comparing with the articles features of Zhuang Zi and Strategies ofthe Warring States. By comparison, the aspect of manoeuvre freely of can be found inthe two works, but the differences of the article style were widely: the Language ofZhuang Zi was grand and bold, while the language of Strategies of the Warring Stateswas extravagant and garish; Zhuang Zi was weird and unusual, while Strategies of theWarring States was popular and lucid; Zhuang Zi did well in allegory, whileStrategies of the Warring States was expert in lobbying.Chapter three: Comparing with the writing techniques of Articles of Zhuang Ziand Strategies of the Warring States related to fable reasoning, image building andrhetoric. The sources and use morphologicals were mainly compared in the fablereasoning. The image building mainly elaborated from the portrait description,dialogue, psychological characterization and detail description. Metaphor, hyperbole,personification, parallelism was enumerated in the application of rhetoric.