This term, concerning the motivation in poetry writing, was first used by the Southern Dynasty poetry theorist Zhong Rong (?-518？) in his The Critique of Poetry. He emphasized the impact upon a poet's creative activities of seasonal changes and encounters between humans, maintaining that the poet uses his work to show his inner feelings and aspira…
This expression is used to describe prose and poetry lacking fluency because they fail to express their authors’ feelings freely, and instead borrow hackneyed allusions or phrases. Such writing is seen to lack flair, and comes across as unnatural and fragmentary. Juluan (拘挛) points to the lack of fluency as a result of artificial, rigid use of al…
This term stands for deep and genuine emotions. The expression already existed in Pre-Qin times, but only during the late Ming Dynasty did it become a term in literary theory, when playwright Tang Xianzu (1550-1616) introduced the concept into literary creation. Influenced by the leftist faction of Wang Yangming’s philosophy of the mind, Tang Xianz…
The purposes of the Project are to select the concepts in Chinese culture and thought that reflect the characteristics of the country's traditional culture and the Chinese people's way of thinking, and that embody the core values of China.
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