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The Tao Of Huainanzi And The Viewpointof Literature And Art

Posted on:2011-10-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y N WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330332456518Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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Tao is the core of the idea of HuaiNanzi, which show the combine of the Tao of heaven, earth and human being. The Tao of deep philosophic theory has the important value of research. At the same time, the thoughts of literature and art also have the important place, which don't have monographic exposition and be given the enough attention. As a result, this paper will try to study the aspects. In the method of the research, the paper adheres to the principle of Marxism and sorts out the idea in the course of analyzing problems in order to gain a initial exploration. The main body of the paper contains four parts:The first chapter interprets the background of HuaiNanzi. In the age of Han, the recovery and the prosperity of economy promoted the book completing. Policies for domestic affairs were relatively open which made HuaiNanzi enable to merge the good ideological content from all the factions and contract the special ideological system. In the purpose of editing, I take the idea that the goal of the book is to discover the regular of the society through finding the natural law. The book will pursue the Tao of heaven and earth, but the starting point paid attention to the life and society.The second chapter probes into the Tao of heaven and earth which is traced back to Huai river basin and the doctrines of Tao. Then, it gives a minute analysis about the riddle of the universe life. In the respect of the riddle of the universe and life, three models was put forward, the vitality of yin and yang act on the process of evolution clearly. I hold the idea that the Tao of heaven and earth doesn't be limited in the range of cosmos, but give full scope from the universe to man's world so far as to kings and princes.It has substantial content.The third chapter talks over the Tao of human affairs. The Tao of human affairs is the extension of the Tao of heaven and earth. It contacts the abstract principle with the concrete personal matters, while the Tao of king becomes more concrete. All these form the unique place. The Tao of human affairs is analyzed and explained specifically from three aspects and its core effect was reflected and the subjective initiative of man was confirmed.The fourth chapter looks closely at the thoughts of literature and art. All things on earth take on an infinite variety of form start from the Tao, which exert influence not only on the substance but also on man's energy. The literature and art is part of the mental world, which belongs to Tao surely. With regard to the thoughts of literature and art, this chapter expounds it from three aspects which contain nature, relations between form and spirit and the relations between text and essence. The viewpoint of literature and art will be made a systematic induction which embodies the Tao of the distillation of art.The innovation spot of the paper lies to system's combing of the Tao of HuaiNanzi, and the thought of the Tao not only to contain has accepted to the extraterrestrial life evolution pattern exploration, moreover also derived to the social life scope, and also obtained the artistic sublimation in the literary domain.
Keywords/Search Tags:HuaiNanzi, "Tao", Universe, Society, Life, Viewpoint of literature and art
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