Yang Xiong,a cultural celebrity in ancient China,is a well-known figure in the history of Chinese literature with abundant research on his literary achievements.However,little research has been done on the presentatio...Yang Xiong,a cultural celebrity in ancient China,is a well-known figure in the history of Chinese literature with abundant research on his literary achievements.However,little research has been done on the presentation of his name,former residence,and prose poems in Chinese calligraphy from an iconographic perspective.This paper intends to explore how“Yang Xiong,”“Yang Ziyun,”“Ziyun Pavilion in Xishu Prefecture,”and“Yang Xiong’s prose poems”are presented in the Chinese calligraphy,especially in calligraphies by Wang Xizhi,Su Dongpo,Huang Tingjian,Mi Fu,and other famous calligraphers in the previous dynasties.Research shows that Yang Xiong influenced not only Chinese literature but also Chinese calligraphy to a certain extent.展开更多
THE Double Nine Festival,which falls on theninth day of the ninth lunar month,is anancient tradition among Han Chinese.TheBook of Changes,a famous classic in ancient China,designates the number 9 as yang(the masculine...THE Double Nine Festival,which falls on theninth day of the ninth lunar month,is anancient tradition among Han Chinese.TheBook of Changes,a famous classic in ancient China,designates the number 9 as yang(the masculine orpositive principle in nature).Thus Double Nine isknown as Chongyang in Chinese,meaning doubleyang.In The Western Capital Miscellancy,Ge Hong(281-341)of the Eastern Jin Dynasty described onetraditional custom of the Western Han Dynasty (206B.C.-A.D.24):″Wearing medicinal comel (Cornusofficinalis),eating double yang cake and drinking chry-santhemum wine on the ninth day of the ninth lunarmonth all help to prolong life.″Therefore the DoubleNine Festival is also celebrated as a festival for the old.People often wear medicinal cornel and climb to ahigh place to drink chrysanthemum wine.The customcomes from a legend:Huan Jing was a student ofnecromancer Fei Changfang in the Eastern Han Dy-nasty (25-220). One day Fei warned Huan that thelatter’s family was in danger of suffering a diaster展开更多
文摘Yang Xiong,a cultural celebrity in ancient China,is a well-known figure in the history of Chinese literature with abundant research on his literary achievements.However,little research has been done on the presentation of his name,former residence,and prose poems in Chinese calligraphy from an iconographic perspective.This paper intends to explore how“Yang Xiong,”“Yang Ziyun,”“Ziyun Pavilion in Xishu Prefecture,”and“Yang Xiong’s prose poems”are presented in the Chinese calligraphy,especially in calligraphies by Wang Xizhi,Su Dongpo,Huang Tingjian,Mi Fu,and other famous calligraphers in the previous dynasties.Research shows that Yang Xiong influenced not only Chinese literature but also Chinese calligraphy to a certain extent.
文摘THE Double Nine Festival,which falls on theninth day of the ninth lunar month,is anancient tradition among Han Chinese.TheBook of Changes,a famous classic in ancient China,designates the number 9 as yang(the masculine orpositive principle in nature).Thus Double Nine isknown as Chongyang in Chinese,meaning doubleyang.In The Western Capital Miscellancy,Ge Hong(281-341)of the Eastern Jin Dynasty described onetraditional custom of the Western Han Dynasty (206B.C.-A.D.24):″Wearing medicinal comel (Cornusofficinalis),eating double yang cake and drinking chry-santhemum wine on the ninth day of the ninth lunarmonth all help to prolong life.″Therefore the DoubleNine Festival is also celebrated as a festival for the old.People often wear medicinal cornel and climb to ahigh place to drink chrysanthemum wine.The customcomes from a legend:Huan Jing was a student ofnecromancer Fei Changfang in the Eastern Han Dy-nasty (25-220). One day Fei warned Huan that thelatter’s family was in danger of suffering a diaster
