Confucianism and Poetry Education -- A Study on Pre-Qin Confucian Literary Thought (Columbia. Harvard-Yenching Academic Series)

Author: Yu Zhihui
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book discusses the literary thought of Confucianism before the Qin Dynasty, focusing on two aspects: verbal thought and poetic thought. Beyond briefly summarizing what has already been thoroughly discussed, it is based on the following understanding: The great scholars such as Confucius and Mencius' discussions on verbal issues relativelyly reflect their literary thought, and these expressions have become topics of repeated discussion in later Chinese literary theory, even serving as guiding and principle-based propositions. When discussing their poetic thought, the book takes the use of poetry in the Spring and Autumn period as the background, because in the author's view, the use of poetry in the Spring and Autumn period is not only the theoretical background for the above propositions proposed by pre-Qin Confucianism—making it convenient to seek the meaning of these propositions—but it should also be close to the essence, and it is also an important part of their literary thought. Moreover, Confucian poetic thought, fundamentally speaking, resonates with the poetic wisdom and cultural spirit of our nation since the Western Zhou and Spring and Autumn periods.