JIANGHAN ACADEMIC ›› 2008, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (5): 28-34.

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Wang Wei’s Outlook on Ecology and Form Quality of His Poems

WANG Zhi-qing   

  1. School of Liberal Arts, Nantong University, Nantong 226007,Jiangsu,China
  • Received:2008-05-20 Online:2008-10-01 Published:2014-01-02

Abstract: In modern definition, Wang Wei is a devoted supporter of the doctrine of taking nature as the centre. His simple life and his life pursuit of natural pleasantness reflect a way of life, the satate and the wisdom of existence highly harmonious between man and nature. Such results in his idea of existence and content of pleasantness, which “do not take mankind but nature as the centre”, in his aesthetically experiencing the natural scenery of hills and water. And his ecological wisdom of the ecological outlook enabled him to enter the best level in his best state, go cleep to the core of good fortune and sense the true essence and sacred reason of the scenery of hills and water, thus made him a happy person who possessed to the largest degree the “ability to share the other happiness of life”, Wang’s aesthetic experience reached the level of that of religion or philosophy. In his poems everything is presented in a natural and aesthetic way, exhibiting an excellent artistic conception extremely abstruse and magnificent and manifesting the universe spirit of boundless free dom. Both philosophically and aesthetically it achieved and ecological form quality, that is transparent, elusive and in a totally natural way. Such is worthy of being called a pattern of Chinese ecological literature.

Key words: Wang Wei’s outlook on ecology, way of life, life experience, naturally coming into being of each and all

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