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A Poetic Edification Theory-Based Understanding of Quotation Poems in Analects of Confucius - With a focus on Confucius' viewpoint of study and Wenzhi lun -
Journal of Korean Classical Chinese Literature
Abbr :
한문고전연구
2016, 33(1), pp.413-433
DOI : 10.18213/jkccl.2016.33.1.012
Publisher : The Classical Chinese Literature Association of Korea
Research Area : Korean Language and Literature
2016, 33(1), pp.413-433
DOI : 10.18213/jkccl.2016.33.1.012
Publisher : The Classical Chinese Literature Association of Korea
Research Area : Korean Language and Literature
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There are total eight citation poems in Analects of Confucius. Of them, four were directly quoted by Confucius; two were quoted from his conversations with his pupils regarding his education for his students with poems; and the remaining two were quoted from Cengzi at his deathbed and a hermit, respectively. This study set out to examine the poems and lost poems of Book of Odes quoted in Analects of Confucius, understand the characteristics of Confucius' poetic edification theory connoted in them through the situations and conversational content of poetic quotations, and make a concrete inquiry into them. However, it's too voluminous to examine these total eight citation poems because not only the reason of quotation and character, but also poetic edification are respectively different from one another, also some poems were brought to a doubt of mispagination. With these reasons, in order to make my point clear I'd like to limit to only three poems which contain Confucius' viewpoints of study and Wenzhi lun. Confucius' viewpoints of study and poetic quotations have a strong connotation of his poetic edification, which emphasizes ongoing human growth or his lesson that one should not be satisfied or settle down with his or her achievements while recognizing the academic achievements of Zilu and Zigong in the aspects of academic progress and character growth. The study then examined Confucius' Wenzhi lun and poetic quotations and found that he established a basic perspective for Wenzhi by highlighting its fundamental aspects including the recognition of Xianhou lun of loyal subjects and manners after Huishihousu and further proposed an ideal human character of Wenzhi binbin. The Analects of Confucius naturally develops his poetic edification theory according to the situations of poetic quotation and the phase of his disciples' academic achievements. Confucius emphasized the importance of poems in advancement of learning. The aim and feature of his lesson was to lead his disciples to desirable human characters by devoting themselves to studying. Therefore, he enthusiastically conjugated the poems for teaching his disciples.
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