The categorical association of "Spring" in Six Dynasties Poetry
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Yang, Pei-Ying
Abstract
The “grieving in the spring, sorrowing in the autumn” is one of the most significant themes in the traditional Chinese Literature. The major concern of this article is to discuss: how to complete enormous metaphors series about the born and growth of emotion, the reflection to some animals, plants, and climate and such as phonological knowledge etc., of the “Spring”.
Six Dynasties are the critical periods inherit from pre-Qin and Han and become pioneer for Tang and Songs in literature, criticism, encyclopedias codification and maturity. This article bases on Six Dynasties Poetry and make Mr. Lu Qin Li’s " Pre-Qin ,Han, Wei-Jin and Northern and Southern Poetry" as text sources, plus with “Shi Jing” or “Chu Tzu”, to category and analyze the writing in Six Dynasties Poetry and to discover the categorical association in the “Spring”.
The way of discussion what I follow is triggered by “Metaphors We Live By”, written by George Lakeoff (A.D. 1941 - ), and Mark Johnson (A.D 1949 - ), and “The way of water and sprouts of virtue”, written by Sarah Allan (A.D. 1945 - ). By doing detailed thinking and survey, it is expected to communicate with “Seasons” described in “Chinese poetry principle”, authored by Mr. Matsuura Tomohisa.
In the arrangement discussed, this paper follows the Chinese or the human ancestors to observe the order of nature, from the geomorphology and the humanities and astronomy. In order to come to spring grass, spring flowers, spring moss and spring trees were written mainly in spring image group, and to gestated various landforms plants, spring sunlight , spring breeze, spring water, as well as the close interdependence of the spring plants, birds, cloud etc., are becoming a minority group of images. Of course, the spring must be feeling the full sensory experience of invasion, so the olfactory touch audio-visual and other sensory taste experience, also recorded in writing in the spring, continue to be an important key to link various types of the categorical association of "Spring", even derived class system of metaphor.
These analyzes found the so-called " the grieving in the spring " can not be simplified as sad thought, but rather a variety of poets in the context of the “Spring” caused all sorts of thoughts. Unlike Matsuura Tomohisa consider " the sorrowing in the autumn " is the premise of "the grieving in the spring ", I believe that both coexist in Pre-Qin ,Han, Wei-Jin and Northern and Southern Poetry, and most belong to different groups, different atmosphere, different seasons of experience. If the characteristic marks of spring is green, full of water droplets caused the Six Dynasties poet to think about life, love, recollections of home and country, places yellow leaves of autumn, the chirp of insects cause them also to think about life, frustrated for one''s career ,and some sentimental story. In short, the "Spring” and the “Autumn" just split into two parts：the "Spring” on behalf of youth, women, love theme, and the “Autumn" behalf of sadness, scholars, sad situation of poet. Both become a staple of traditional Chinese literature.
Subjects
傷春
六朝詩歌
連類譬喻
Type
thesis
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