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Download Article (PDF) Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 469 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2020) Expounding on Liu Xizai's Theory of "Zao Kong Luan Dao" Hong Qiu1,* 1The College of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610000, China *Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT The "General Survey of Arts" by Liu Xizai is an important work of literary and art criticism in the late Qing Dynasty, which discusses the issues related to prose, poetry, fu (descriptive prose interspersed with verse), ci (a type of classical Chinese poetry, originating in the Tang Dynasty and fully developed in the Song Dynasty) and qu (a type of verse for singing, which emerged in the Southern Song and Jin Dynasties and become popular in the Yuan Dynasty), calligraphy and Confucian classics argumentation in different categories. In the opinion of Liu Xizai, different categories of art have their own standards of creation and evaluation, but "zao kong luan dao" is one of the few ideas that runs through several arts. He used "zao kong luan dao" many times to make high comments on the works of the past dynasties, which differed from the original meaning of the expression and formed a great contrast with the mainstream views of historical theory and poetic theory on the need to avoid kong (emptiness) and luan (disorder). The unique artistic condition of "zao kong luan dao" is jointly shaped by the connotation of "having substance" and the creative techniques of "feng and xing", which reflects the characteristics of Liu Xizai's literary and artistic thoughts that are flexible, unconstrained, stable and inclusive. Keywords: Liu Xizai, General Survey of Arts, zao kong luan dao, having substance, artistic conception only one paper in the academic circle — Tu Chengri's I. INTRODUCTION "The Poetic Interpretation of Liu Xizai's Theory of 'Zao (P118-121) As a famous literary and art theorist of the late Qing Kong Luan Dao' [1] , which studies this Dynasty, Liu Xizai left many works. Among them, proposition. However, the author mainly regards it as "General Survey of Arts" is the core text bearing Liu an established type of proposition in ancient Chinese his literary and artistic thoughts. It consists of six literary theory, arguing that "zao kong luan dao" and "general surveys" — "General Survey of Prose", "abnormal but reasonable" put forward by Su Shi, the "General Survey of Poetry", "General Survey of Fu", famous the poet of Song dynasty and "seemingly "General Survey of Ci and Qu", "General Survey of unreasonable but actually profound" proposed by the Calligraphy" and "General Survey of Confucian scholar He Chang of Qing Dynasty are uncannily Classics Argumentation". Researchers mainly focus on parallel. From a macro point of view, he discussed the the analysis of literary theory, poetry theory, ci and qu aesthetic interests that these similar poetic propositions theory and calligraphic theory, but the overall study of may share and the causes. But in fact, the discussion on different artistic thoughts is rare. the text of "General Survey of Arts" and Liu Xizai's poetic thoughts in the paper is not enough. And this In "General Survey of Arts", Liu Xizai combs the insufficiency also leads to the doubt of the similarity changes of different categories of arts, elucidates the between the three poetic propositions of "zao kong luan characteristics of artistic creation, and comments on the dao", "abnormal but reasonable" and "seemingly works of writers in previous dynasties. Not only do the unreasonable but actually profound": although these views of different arts remain consistent, but the ideas three have some common points in word formation and of different arts also echo each other. Among the thought, they cannot be regarded as the same type of comments and views, there is a phenomenon of poetic propositions. From the expression of Su Shi, He considerable concern, that is, Liu Xizai used "zao kong Chang and the analysis of the author, the first two are luan dao" (including "luan dao") many times in his very specific poetic skills and conception construction "General Survey of Prose", "General Survey of Poetry", methods, while "zao kong luan dao" is a poetic "General Survey of Fu", "General Survey of Ci and Qu" proposition proposed by Liu Xizai based on his literary to evaluate the works he admired. At present, there is Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL. This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license -http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. 277 Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 469 and artistic thoughts, with unique connotations and "What did not happen in history cannot be coined artistic features. even by Confucius; it is said in 'Lu Shi' that the King Xiang of Zhou never resumed his country, yet Wang In "General Survey of Arts", "zao kong luan dao" is Zihu kept it for him. This is a parlance adopting 'zao a positive poetic proposition which can be shared by kong'." [7] (p331) different literary styles and and is consistent in meaning. However, the meaning of the expression "zao The above examples are historical comments. As far kong luan dao" itself is negative. Taking modern texts as the principle of real recording is concerned, it is as examples, such as Ye Beiqing's "Study on the indeed improper to use "zao kong" as a technique in the Interpretation of Zhuangzi's Peripateticism in the Song writing of historical books. In poetry theory, "zao kong" Dynasty": "Luo Miandao, however, proves that the is no praise either. For example, Yuan Haowen said in transmission of things in "Zhi Le" is not really his "Yin on Tu Fu Poetics", something 'zao kong luan dao' (here meaning something negative)." [3] (p187) When talking about the academic "There are 60 or 70 people who have annotated Du contribution of "traditional school" and "new school" in Fu's poems. It will not do them justice to think of their the academia of ci, liu Yangzhong argues that "On the exploration on the secluded but profound thing in Du other hand, the so-called 'new school' is not as rootless Fu's poems. However, there are also many as some people describe it, nor does it just sells miscellaneous and disorderly notes due to the 'zao kong' Western theories and is 'zao kong luan dao' in ci and rootless contents with wide quotations and wind demonstration of mixed quality." [8] (p1221) studies." [4] (p3) It can be seen that in modern Chinese, "zao kong luan dao" is not a "good word". It is usually Taking Hu zai's quotation of Shangu's remark in used to express the author's opinions or research issues "Poetic Notes Taken by the Recluse of the Brook Tiao", without any basis, and it is often used to describe the "Poetry cannot be created constrainedly; it can be unreliability of written materials. naturally exquisite when artistic conception comes." [9] (p320) II. SOURCE TRACING OF THE MEANING OF It can be seen that both the historical theory and the "ZAO KONG LUAN DAO" poetic theory regard "zao kong" as a groundless The expression "zao kong luan dao (凿空乱道)" was nonsense or construction of a fictitious association; in other articles other than historical and poetic theories, not until "General Survey of Arts" that it was frequently "zao kong" is often combined with such words as used as a idiom as it can hardly be found in documents fabrications, groundless remark, nonsense, artificial and before Liu Xizai. The part "zao kong" first appeared in strained interpretation, in which the derogation is quite "Historical Records · The Biography of Dayuan": obvious. "However, since Zhang Qian was the one who As for "luan dao", it can be interpreted as blazed the path, later emissaries to the Western regions demoralizing, as in "The Book of Jin · Collected were named as Marquis Bowang (Zhang Qian's title) in Biographies · Dai Kui" by Fang Xuanling, order to win the trust of foreign countries, and foreigners therefore trusted them." [5] (p3169) "Thus the hypocrite who is seemingly moderate, is actually corrupt; a loose fish who may seem generous, In "Ji Jie", Pei Yin quoted Su Lin, saying: "Zao but is immoral in reality."[10] (p2458) means opening up; kong means breaking through. Zhang Qian opened the way to the Western regions." It can also be explained as speaking carelessly. This [5](p3170) It can be seen that "zao kong" means to explore kind of usage can be found everywhere in poetic theory, the unknown. such as the Volume Four of Li Heng's "Quotations from Le'an" in the Song Dynasty: Since then, "zao kong" has been used mostly in a negative meaning, as in Han Yu's "Answer to Scholar "The article is based on the conception, but also on Liu on the Compilation of National History": sincerity. If the article is not made out of sincerity, it is 'luan dao'." [11] (p310) "What's even worse, there are people who attach themselves to cliques, and thus love and hate in ways The 'luan dao' here is synonym to 'zao kong' and the that are different from common sense, craft the article that is not sincere and has no intention can be language and forge the deeds of good and evil. On what called disorderly and careless speech. grounds can such an approach be trusted to perpetuate itself through cursory biography?" [6] (p669) Besides, the "Miscellaneum of Poetry Theorie" records Qi Ji's "Fengsao Zhige", "There are forty Another example is in the Volume 4 of Gu Yanwu's categories of poems", the eleventh of which is "luan "Ri Zhi Lu", "'The King Enters the Royal City' Not to dao" [12] (P384); it then records Xu Yin's "Yadao Jiyao" be Recorded": listing "luan dao" in "different categories" [12](p509), 278 Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 469 which carries on Qi Ji's thought.
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