Midterms Flashcards
A Philisopher and and essayist, born in 369 B.C, Honan China
Chuang Tzu
Story of the skull in a dream
Chuang Tzu
Stroy of the Wizard in a palace
Chuang tzu
5-7 Characters per line, arrangements are proscribe as a sonnet
Regulated verse
Who are the 3 poets?
Tao Chien, Li Po, Po Chu’i
What style does T’ao Chien use?
philosophical
What style does Li Po use?
strong imagery
What style does Po Chu-i used?
social events, public, superstitious
Two types of Taoism
Nature and Freedom
Who is the author of the Pillow Book?
Sei Shonagon
Who is the author of the Hovering Clouds?
T’ao Chien
“cringe for 5 pecks of rice”
Ta’o Chien
How many inner chapters out of 33 thought to be by the master himself
Seven
What does Tao mean?
The way
What is Confucianism?
Wisdom, To better society, strict obedience to parent las and law
Topics on how to be gentleman
The analects
Topics about the master
Analects
Who is the author of the analects?
Disciples of Confucius
He who rules by moral forces…is like a pole star
The analects
Set heart upon learning….
Analects
Respect parents
Analects
Gentleman never quit the way of goodness
Analects
Twice is quite enough….
The analects
The master ask about wish….
Analects
Who is Confucius famous student
Hui
…..The Wiseman delights in water a good Man delights in mountains for the wise move but the good stay still
Analects
Any thoughts of accepting wealth and rank by means that I know to be wrong as remote for me as clouds float above….
Analects
Do not do unto others what you would not like yourself
The analects
The story of the death of wife and drumming of bowl
Chuang tzu
What are the three kinds of power
To grow to a stature, to have knowledge and to be bold
What is a poem about thinking about the friend
Hovering clouds
Dense dense the hovering cloud
Fine fine the seasonable rain
The good friend is far away
The hovering clouds
Once clever learning sprouted
An Exhortation to Farmers, i, Tao Ch’ien
Confucius stuck to morality
An Exhortation to Farmers, VI, Tao Ch’ien
The Great Potter cannot intervene
All creation thrives to itself.
Spirit’s Solution, Tao Ch’ien
I built my hut beside a travel road
Twenty Poems after Drinking Wine, v, Tao Ch’ien
It was my own doing that made my mind my body’s slave
The Return, Tao Ch’ien
Last year we were fighting at the the source of Sangkan … NW of China
Fighting South of the Ramparts, Li Po
The song has a tune, but the tune cannot be played, If the soldiers heard … Hair go grey.
Ballad of Yu-Chang, Li Po
Deep the waters of the black pool …
The Dragon of the Black Pool, not to be superstitious, Po Chu-i
The ears pierced , their faces bruised … Driven to the land of Ch’in.
The Prisoners, Po Chu’i, he wants to go back to his home
Children parting from fathers and mothers, husbands parting from wives …
The Old Man with the Broken Arm, Po Chu’i, he doesn’t want to go to war
Earliest practitioner of western style fiction in China
Lu Hsun
Cannibalism, two brothers, sister died.
A Madman’s Diary, Lu Hsun
Superstition, steamed bread with blood to cure TB (consumption)
Medicine, Lu Hsun
Soap for the baby girl… Dirty mind (father)
Soap, Lu Hsun
Empress during the time of Sei Shonagon
Sadako
talks about what she likes in spring-dawn, summer-night, autumn-evening, winter-early mornings
In Spring it is the Dawn, Sei Shonagon
Lady Myobo- cat (head-dress of nobility)
Okinamaro- dog
The Cat who Lived in the Palace, Sei Shonagon
Terrifying creatures with long arm and long legs.
Request to write poem.
The Sliding Screen in the back of the Hall, Sei Shonagon
Dog howling, letter arrives from the province no gift accompany, crying child, men drinking …
Depressing Things, Sei Shonagon
He likes drinking
Tao chien
Anti war
Li po
Taoism with a little Confucius
Tao chien
Knocked at the door and fumbled for words
Begging for food, Tao chien
Retired from his job as a government official and became a farmer
Tao chien
Uses poetry to expose corruption superstition militarism and oppression of the people
Po chui
Dog howling in daytime
Depressing things
This is where yin and yang originates
Taoism
To have a structured society
Confucianism
To be one of nature
Taoism
Humans should respect to those who are superior to them
Confucianism
Mind controls body
Twenty Poems after Drinking Wine, Tao Chien
Life is simple. Don’t complicate things.
Spirit’s Solution, Tao Chien
return to nature
The Return, Tao Chien
Importance of agriculture
An Exhortation to Farmers, Tao Chien
Fight only if necessary
Fighting South of the Ramparts, Li Po
Anti war song
Ballad of Yu-Chang, Li Po
Not to be superstitious
The Dragon if the Black Pool, Po Chui
Citizens are the one’s who suffer in war
The Prisoner, Po Chui
