The Research On Fisher Woodcutter Motif In Chinese Poetics

My research of the fisher woodcutter motif in Chinese poetics is revealing and constructive——it is to eliminate the prejudice of assuming this motif as a single symbol;to present the intensive and complicated implication structure; to explain the life ideals and cultural spirits it contains:peace, freedom and tranquility; and to construct the motif theory and research paradigm in the context of Chinese poetics.Because of the dislocation of Chinese and Western motif concepts has caused the isolation between theory and practice in research, the necessity of reconciling the two concepts in Chinese and western poetics is self-evident. And I think it could be realized through these methods as below:first, set the universal life scenario as the common context; second, use the structure model of western motif research for reference; third, enrich it with Chinese classical poetics. And through the reconciliation between the two parties, the theoretical foundation and structure model of motif research in Chinese poetics is warranted.In the part of literary history, through describing the developing track and trend of the fisher woodcutter motif in language quotation and motif implication, from pre-chin period to modern ages, I revealed the expressive characteristics of this motif in different phases and different literary styles. The historical tracing is helpful in clearing the clues of materials regarding ideological topics, typical images, and the reception of classical texts. As for the ideological topics, becoming a talent or not is related to the life value choice, being sensitive or not leads to the cultural position choice, and the Green Hills and Annals of history is a question of the principle of historical evaluation. These three topics are all regarding about the traditional basic cultural concepts, which have been well responded by the literary works with fisher woodcutter motif. As for the typical images, they represent the three dimensions of the ideological life of the gentry group. The Yanling fishing platform image corresponds the personality ideal, the Taoyuan (the Land of Peach Blossoms) image points to the social ideal, and the ferry image symbolizes the spiritual pursuit. And all these three reflect the typical complex in intellectual minds, while images are the outcome of this complex. As far as the subsequent influence is concerned, the River Snow and the Western Frontier Fortress could be counted as the classics of the literary works with fisher woodcutter motif. To the classics, there is isomorphism and simultaneity among its historical reception, its continuous meaning enrichment, and the expanding of its meaning world. The study on the influence of classic texts redounds to discover the forms of inheriting and creative view of literary tradition, and the concrete connection between ancient and modern ages. So, the aforesaid analysis emphasizes particularly on ideological connotation research, while the chapter of Travel and Migration pays more attention to the morphological changes of this motif. During the travel in literature, music and folk handicrafts, the fisher and woodcutter motif plays an important role in communicating between the major and minor traditions, the refined and vulgar culture, from which we can see the unity in the layered tradition culture; in the meantime, during the migration from Jiang-Xiang area to Wu-Yue area, the fisher woodcutter motif just tally with the trend of eastward and southward movement of Chinese cultural core, from which we can see the importance of motif in maintaining the stability of traditional culture.The meaning of the study on Chinese poetic fisher woodcutter motif is not merely revealing the implicative humanistic spirits and cultural meaning, but also the enlighten value of constructing Chinese poetic fisher woodcutter motif theory and its research paradigm. To sum up, there're three dimension of it. First, phraseology and image, which are the sub-concepts of poetic motif theory. Second, language quotation and motif implication, which are the research routes of the concrete motif forms. Third, ideological topics, typical images, classic works and the travel motif, which are the plate structure of this research.