The Son of Heaven refers to the emperor or monarch, the supreme ruler of an empire or dynasty. People in ancient times believed that a monarch ruled the world by Heaven’s decree and with its mandate, hence he was called the Son of Heaven. This term asserted that a ruler’s authority was legitimate and sacred, as it was bestowed by Heaven, but to so…
Here, bi (比) means to arrange and combine something in a certain way, and yue(乐) means to express through music. As a noun in its broad sense, yue refers to both the arrangement of sounds and the dance that accompanies the music. When a person experiences changes of feeling, triggered by external encounter, he will naturally make a variety of soun…
A poet should directly express his thoughts and sentiments when he is inspired. This is a concept for writing poems proposed by poetry critic Zhong Rong (?-518?)of the Southern Dynasties in his work The Critique of Poetry as a reaction to the excessive use of allusions and quotes from earlier works. Inspired by naturalist ideas of Daoism and by …