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Metaphysics Of Wei-Jin Danasty And Tao Yuanming's Philosophy Poems

Posted on:2017-01-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R X XiaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330488469713Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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After deformation of Guo Xiang and Pei Wei who lived in the Western Jin Dynasty, Metaphysics testablished from Zhengshi-era mixed nature and diocesan together, then it completed theory construction under the strong influence of Buddhism. From Zhengshi-era to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, The literati followed values of metaphysics for 200 years, which affected their attitudes, life styles, values and mood temperament. Tao Yuanming is a typical representative of these literati. He is deeply impacted by metaphysics. In this background, he calmly realized the transition from an ambitious to a committed unambitious, and finally became Chuang Tzu's Zhenren who was mentioned in his books.That was a time of sound development philosophy, which led to Tao Yuanming's poetry works fulling of philosophy theory. Firstly, he thought seriously about human nature. Then, he told us how to get rid of troubles. At last, He reached an original state of mind of being leisure and carefree. His explorations of life shows a kind of power, which can restore the original appearance of life. And that was an easygoing life style. The wisdom in his poetry still didn't valuable until today, which provided a way for modern people those struggled in a variety of contradictions.The rise of metaphysics theory not only influenced scholars'spirit, also led poetry atmosphere to the change of metaphysical reasoning. Although these poetry lacking of image and affections coloration, it gave birth to Tao Yuanming's philosophical poems that were called masterpiece. From view of artistic techniques, Tao Yuanming's philosophical poetry had a lot in common with these metaphysical poems, such as plain style, accustoming to using Taoist allusions and meaningful just with a few words. However, his philosophy came from life, and he can handle relationships like scenery, emotion, things and theory very well, which is unique in the ancient Chinese literature history.
Keywords/Search Tags:Metaphysics, Tao Yuanming, metaphysical poems, philosophy poems
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