A Study Of Temporal Consciousness In Han And Wei Poetry

The space-time consciousness in poetry is a subjective feeling in the poet’s life experience,which is mainly manifested by the poet’s placing the space-time of individual life in the cosmic space-time for comparison,reflecting on life and writing sentiments in the contradiction between infinity and finitude.In the pre-Qin period,space-time consciousness was born from social practice,abstracted from the ancient concept of "four times" and "four directions" in real space-time,and experienced the concept of "observing and teaching time"."The time consciousness of the two Han dynasties was closely connected with the people’s increasingly awakened life consciousness,which was expressed as the concern and reflection on life time,and the space consciousness was expressed as the further understanding of the real space in the expansion of the territory.The writing of time and space in the Poetic Edda,Chu Shi and the poems of the literati of the two Han dynasties laid a solid foundation for the poetic writing of time and space in the Han and Wei dynasties,and also provided different paradigms for expression.In the Han and Wei dynasties,the reality of turmoil and strife not only shattered the solidified view of history,but also made the sense of time and space chaotic and disorderly.The literati expressed their thoughts and feelings about time and space in their poetry,in terms of time,as the sorrow of the passing of the temporal rotation and the sorrow of life and death that could not be crossed;in terms of space,as the pain of the distance between the reality and the contradiction of the earthly immortal world and the anger of powerlessness.Under the anxiety of "sorrow," "grief," "pain," and "anger" in time and space,the poet seeks a spiritual way out and in deep thought The poet makes two different choices for his personal life,namely,the negative one of having fun in time and the positive one of pursuing glory and fame.These two different choices of life orientation did not allow the poets of the Han and Wei dynasties to transcend the constraints of time and space,but they were the path to a transient spiritual peace.The poets of the Han and Wei dynasties skillfully processed the temporal consciousness presented in their poems,making them not only philosophical but also aesthetic expressions of time and space.In the expression of temporal consciousness,the writing of objective time and subjective time have different characteristics,and the poets adjusted and changed the order of objective time in a forward or reverse direction according to the structure of "present and past",and deformed and distorted subjective time according to the poet’s psychological changes,and changed different time domains and values according to the poet’s emotional needs The poem’s time expression has a more artistic tension.As a time perception word that appears in a large number of poems in the Han and Wei dynasties,"khu" is a kind of transient and instantaneous time expression under the domination of life consciousness,and is also the poet’s thrilling experience of the passage of time.In the expression of spatial art,the poet constructs a vast and far-reaching physical space in his poems,and creates a fictional space of fairyland with his imagination."As a typical spatial perspective in the poetry of the Han and Wei dynasties,the poet’s "self-realization" and"open-mindedness" are carried in the poem.At the same time,time and space are not independent single existences;according to the ancient Chinese traditional concept of "space and time as one",the poems also show a tendency to integrate the specific expressions of time and space,i.e.the spatialization of time and the temporalization of space.The spatialization of time refers to the expression of the passage of time by spatial displacement;the temporalization of space refers to the modification of the spatial scene by time.No matter how poetry expresses time and space,its essence is the trust and externalization of the poet’s spatio-temporal consciousness,and its fundamental purpose is to express the poet’s inner emotion.The poems of the Han and Wei dynasties have a unique connotation in the space-time imagery chosen for writing about space-time consciousness.The time imagery includes direct time imagery and indirect time imagery,carrying the poet’s intuitive feelings about the passage of time;the space imagery,on the other hand,expresses the poet’s exploration and pursuit of the lost road after the awakening of his self-awareness with two kinds of imagery: spatial blockage and connection.These unique spatio-temporal images reflect the poet’s unique experience of time and space and the sadness of life,and reflect the poet’s perception and reflection on life.Their perfect and ingenious combination deepens the emotional connotation and enhances the ideological dimension of the poems,laying a solid psychological and thinking foundation for the Wei and Jin literati to express their special spatio-temporal feelings and perception of life,and greatly enhancing the life mood and ideological connotation of Wei and Jin poetry.It has a unique status and contribution in the history of Chinese literature.