On the Authors’ Acceptance to Zhuangzi in Song Dynasty

• Main Authors: Tsai, Chin-Kuan, 蔡錦寬
• Other Authors: Chien, Kuang-Maing
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62191567826357005851

碩士 === 國立屏東大學 === 中國語文學系碩士班 === 103 === Zhuangzi becomes a highly valuable work, not only for its philosophical content, but the literary value which emerges an aesthetic attitude towards life. In Song Dynasty, many scholars start to explain Zhuangzi’s ideas from different perspectives including Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism, for instance the theory of the mind and daily life. Meanwhile, someone begin to change the traditional method of interpretation the meaning of Zhuangzi, spending more effort on Zhuangzi’s aesthetic and literary achievements. Therefore, Zhuangzi makes great effects on the literature of Song Dynasty. This paper will put Sushi, Wang Anshi, Lin Xiyi and Xi Qiji as the research examples. Sushi holds an open mind towards Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism to build his own artistic works. Sushi’s images and quotations in his poems and articles written in exile shows Zhuangzi’s influence. Wang Anshi changes some meanings of Zhuangzi with the purpose of political reform, his theory of making Zhuangzi confucianlize makes a great many contribution to interpret Zhuangzi. Lin Xiyi, in his Oral Significance of Zhuangzi, emploies a oral way to explain Zhuangzi’s ideas, besides interpreting Zhuangzi from the perspective of Buddhism and Confucianism, he also changes the traditional method of interpretation the meaning of Zhuangzi, paying close attention to Zhuangzi’s literary achievements. Among all the poets in Chinese literature, Xin Qiji is the one who uses the most number of quotations from Zhuangzi. No matter life or writing style with Qi. Through the four authors above, it turns out that Zhuangzi’s great contribution to authors and scholars in Song Dynasty, and it is also good to clarify the difficult relation between Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism.