LPW (Chinese Lit.) Flashcards
profoundly influenced by three great school of thoughts: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.
chinese literature
types of literature in china
- classical
- modern
- contemporary
- present age
Philosopher, politician, and teacher whose message of knowledge, benevolence, loyalty, and virtue were the main guiding philosophy of China for thousands of years.
confucius
Chinese poet, acclaimed from his own time to the present as a brilliant and romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights.
li po/ li bai/ li pai
Philosopher and writer. He is the founder of philosophical Taoism, and a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions.
lao tzu
Chinese poet best known for his ballads and satirical poems. He held the view that good poetry should be readily understood by the common people and exemplified it in poems noted for simple diction, natural style, and social content.
po chu i
Chinese poet and politician of the Tang dynasty. Along with his elder contemporary and friend Li Bai, he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets.
tu fu
forms of literature
- poetry
- prose
- novels
- drama and opera
one of the earliest artistic forms as well as the most fully developed in China.
poetry
- is the period when poetry was flourishing, (the golden age of poetry)
- There are 2,300 poets and 50,000 poems.
- The most famous poets were Li Bai 李白 , Du Fu 杜甫, and Bai Juyi 白居易.
- Ancient poetry of the Tang Dynasty are mainly composed of Five Character and Seven Character. The modern style poetry in Tang Poetry are also composed of two parts: Quatrains and Verses.
tang poetry
From the 6th to the 3rd century BC, the first great works of Chinese philosophy appeared. Philosophical writings, e.g. Confucius’ Analects and Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching
prose
- One of the modern genres of the poetry
- It is a movement that describes a group of Chinese writers working during the Cultural Revolution. These writers crafted poetry that went against that which the government decreed was acceptable.
- The representative is Bei Dao. 北岛
misty poetry
- is a type of lyric poetry.
- use a set of poetic meters derived from a base set of certain patterns, in fixed - rhythm, fixed -tone, and variable line - length formal types.
- One of five basic poetic genres recognized before the influence of Western culture. The other four genres were shi (poetry, verse), yuefu (Music Bureau verse), fu (rhapsody, rhymed prose), and qu (aria).
song ci
- Five Classics (wu jing) and Four Books (si shu)
- The Five Classics consists of the Book of Odes, Book of Documents, Book of Changes, Book of Rites, and the Spring and Autumn Annals.
- The Four Books are comprised of the Doctrine of the Mean, the Great Learning, Mencius, and the Analects
confucianism
