The“Vegetable-Bamboo Style(蔬笋气)”is the negative appraisal toward Chinese Buddhist monastic poems made by literati and scholars,which has ever become a stereotypical criterion of literary criticism since it was pu...The“Vegetable-Bamboo Style(蔬笋气)”is the negative appraisal toward Chinese Buddhist monastic poems made by literati and scholars,which has ever become a stereotypical criterion of literary criticism since it was put forward.However,the criterion of“Vegetable-Bamboo Style”is extrinsic since it deprived the Buddhist monastic poetry of its“selfness”,making it intelligible but false1.This article argues that the characteristic of“Vegetable-Bamboo Style”is not a shortcoming of Buddhist monastic poetry but a new form of poem that is combined with traditional landscape poetry,pastoral poetry,and Chan literature more broadly.Furthermore,this paper will demonstrate that it is a new form of poetry language generated from a unique“life-world(生活世界)”2,which should be treated equally as popular literature and free verse written in the vernacular.展开更多
文摘The“Vegetable-Bamboo Style(蔬笋气)”is the negative appraisal toward Chinese Buddhist monastic poems made by literati and scholars,which has ever become a stereotypical criterion of literary criticism since it was put forward.However,the criterion of“Vegetable-Bamboo Style”is extrinsic since it deprived the Buddhist monastic poetry of its“selfness”,making it intelligible but false1.This article argues that the characteristic of“Vegetable-Bamboo Style”is not a shortcoming of Buddhist monastic poetry but a new form of poem that is combined with traditional landscape poetry,pastoral poetry,and Chan literature more broadly.Furthermore,this paper will demonstrate that it is a new form of poetry language generated from a unique“life-world(生活世界)”2,which should be treated equally as popular literature and free verse written in the vernacular.
