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The sharing of lines in Shih Ching songs has been examined in the twelve songs with tunes (from Hsiao Ya and Kuo Feng) preserved by Chu Hsi. In these, musical lines in their context within the stanza are distinguished as initial (i), medial (m) or final (f) in character. Where text-lines are shared, they tend to occur constantly in the same ...
Oct 15, 2020 · The three East-Asian scripts—Chinese (characters and Pinyin), Japanese (multi-scripts), and Korean (alphabetic Hangul)—are discussed. Under each script, a brief historical account of the given ...
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The three types of songs are feng 風 "airs", ya 雅 "odes", and song 頌 "hymns". The 160 Airs are arranged according to the regional state they originated from (hence called guofeng 國風 "airs from the states"). The Odes are divided into Major Odes (daya 大雅) and Minor Odes (xiaoya 小雅) and arranged in decades (shi 什). The Hymns are religious chants sung i...
Apart from the airs, odes, and hymns, there must have been other types of songs (altogher six, the liushi 六詩 "six types of songs" or liuyi 六義 "six meanings") of which no examples are preserved, namely the types of fu 賦 "straightforward" (which during the Han period reappears as the genre of prose rhapsody, which is a very descriptive and often dida...
The Shijing had always attracted the interest of all groups of persons. Confucius once said that without the Shijing there was nothing to talk about. With many examples from the Shijinghe even instructed his disciples. During the so-called literary inquisition under the First Emperor of Qin 秦始皇 (r. 246/221 – 210 BCE) the Shijing survived virtually ...
A kind of commentary on the Han version, Hanshi waizhuan 韓氏外傳 compiled by Han Ying 韓嬰 (c. 200-130 BCE), has lived on, which was treated as a sub-classic writing ever since. The Qi version was lost during the 3rd century. The Mao version had been transmitted by descendants of Zixia 子夏, a disciple of Confucius. Mao Heng introduced this version of the...
Jan 12, 2023 · The Shijing, or Book of Odes (aka Classic of Poetry, Book of Songs, etc.) is the fountainhead of the Chinese literary tradition. An anthology of 305 undated and anonymous poems that probably arose from the regional courts of the Eastern Zhou period (770–256 BCE) and according to tradition was arranged by Confucius (551–479 BCE), it contains ...
A CASE STUDY OF "CHU CI" (THORNY CALTROP)*. Martin Kern. Studies of selected songs in the ya ft (Elegantiae) and song M. (Eulogia) sections of the Shi jing If IS (Book of songs) have exposed what can be. called the essentially performative nature of these texts.1 Even when com memorating significant historical events, these pieces were not simply.
The Chinese script - Oxford Bibliographies. 2014, Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies, edited by Tim Wright. An annotated bibliography of academic studies related to the Chinese writing system and its history. The exclusivist ideology characterizing the Chinese writing system as " ideographs " was constructed in the West, and later ...
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Dec 10, 2015 · Yuma Ito generates a song for learning Chinese character comprehensively by using sounds that represent the formation structure of the character and lyrics that represent the meaning and usage [1 ...
