The Yangtze 6,300 kilometres long, covering an area of 1.80 million square kilometres and with a yearly flow of about 960 billion cubic metres, is the longest river in China. It ranks third in the world in length and ...The Yangtze 6,300 kilometres long, covering an area of 1.80 million square kilometres and with a yearly flow of about 960 billion cubic metres, is the longest river in China. It ranks third in the world in length and annual average flow. The world famous Three展开更多
The emergence of the practice of quoting The Classic of Poetry(Shijing)is the result of a separation in the ethical function of rites and music.At first,quoting the Poetry is a means to correct people’s pronunciation...The emergence of the practice of quoting The Classic of Poetry(Shijing)is the result of a separation in the ethical function of rites and music.At first,quoting the Poetry is a means to correct people’s pronunciations,but gradually its function changes from the rectification of sound to the rectification of social norms,and by the time of the Warring States period,Qin dynasty,and Han dynasty,the expression"the Poetry says''(Shiyue)has become an emblem of social values through which the writer justifies his own arguments.But although more than 400 cases of such use of the Poetry can be found in Han rhapsodies(Fu),none of the rhapsody-titled works contain expressions such as“the Poetry says•”On the one hand,this results from the sound and rhythmical requirements of chanting the rhapsody.On the other,this shows the gradual reawakening of the writers’self-consciousness in a period when old political and social orders are restored.This stylistic change releases the creative energy of the literary language that helps reconstruct the artistic conception of rhapsodies and stimulates the emergence and flourishing of new literary genres such as five-syllable-line poetry(Wuyanshi),seven-syllable-line poetry(Qiyanshi),parallel prose(Piantiwen),and Chu-style prose(Saotiwen).展开更多
EVERY Lantern Festival, a storytelling fair is held in Majie, a market town with a population of 5,000, located 15 kilometers south of Baofeng County in Henan Province. The third day of the festival, or the 13th day o...EVERY Lantern Festival, a storytelling fair is held in Majie, a market town with a population of 5,000, located 15 kilometers south of Baofeng County in Henan Province. The third day of the festival, or the 13th day of the first lunar month, is the most formal part of this fair, hence the name of the "Baofeng 13 Storytelling Fair at Majie." On this day, more than 1,000 Chinese folk artists gather here from all parts of the country. They put up simple stages or booths on the river banks, on mounds or in wheat fields in an area of about two square kilometers. Alone or in pairs, in threes or fives, facing each other or back to back, they tell story after story to the accompaniment of their traditional instruments: suona (a展开更多
文摘The Yangtze 6,300 kilometres long, covering an area of 1.80 million square kilometres and with a yearly flow of about 960 billion cubic metres, is the longest river in China. It ranks third in the world in length and annual average flow. The world famous Three
基金the Start-up Research Grant(2020-00005-FAH)sponsored by the University of Macao,and the Major projects of the National Social Science Foundation of China(No.17ZDA249).
文摘The emergence of the practice of quoting The Classic of Poetry(Shijing)is the result of a separation in the ethical function of rites and music.At first,quoting the Poetry is a means to correct people’s pronunciations,but gradually its function changes from the rectification of sound to the rectification of social norms,and by the time of the Warring States period,Qin dynasty,and Han dynasty,the expression"the Poetry says''(Shiyue)has become an emblem of social values through which the writer justifies his own arguments.But although more than 400 cases of such use of the Poetry can be found in Han rhapsodies(Fu),none of the rhapsody-titled works contain expressions such as“the Poetry says•”On the one hand,this results from the sound and rhythmical requirements of chanting the rhapsody.On the other,this shows the gradual reawakening of the writers’self-consciousness in a period when old political and social orders are restored.This stylistic change releases the creative energy of the literary language that helps reconstruct the artistic conception of rhapsodies and stimulates the emergence and flourishing of new literary genres such as five-syllable-line poetry(Wuyanshi),seven-syllable-line poetry(Qiyanshi),parallel prose(Piantiwen),and Chu-style prose(Saotiwen).
文摘EVERY Lantern Festival, a storytelling fair is held in Majie, a market town with a population of 5,000, located 15 kilometers south of Baofeng County in Henan Province. The third day of the festival, or the 13th day of the first lunar month, is the most formal part of this fair, hence the name of the "Baofeng 13 Storytelling Fair at Majie." On this day, more than 1,000 Chinese folk artists gather here from all parts of the country. They put up simple stages or booths on the river banks, on mounds or in wheat fields in an area of about two square kilometers. Alone or in pairs, in threes or fives, facing each other or back to back, they tell story after story to the accompaniment of their traditional instruments: suona (a
