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Meanings and Relationship among "Dao-De-Sheng-Wen" in "Yuan Dao" of Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons

Li Kai, Miu Yong

the School of Liberal Arts in Sichuan Normal University

Online:2018-11-25 Published:2019-03-24
About author:Li Kai, Ph.D., is a professor at the School of Liberal Arts in Sichuan Normal University. His research interests cover Chinese literary theory and Bashu culture. Miu Yong is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Liberal Arts in Sichuan Normal University and his research interest is ancient Chinese literary theory.

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Abstract: By perusing the text of "Yuan Dao" (tracing the origin to the Dao) with relevant theories of Chinese and Western philosophy, this article reviews different interpretations of "Dao" and their insufficiencies. It reinterprets the meanings of "Dao" and analyzes difference and connection between "Dao" in "Yuan Dao" and that in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Another focus of this article is the reasons why Liu Xie esteems Confucius as a saint and Laozi a sage, and why he extols Confucian classics and Dao De Jing. Through the above analysis, the article expounds the meanings and relationship among "dao-de-sheng-wen" in "Yuan Dao".

Key words: "Yuan Dao" of Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons, dao, de, sheng, wen, nature

Li Kai, Miu Yong. Meanings and Relationship among "Dao-De-Sheng-Wen" in "Yuan Dao" of Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art.

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