The research of Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism presented in Xie Lingyun’s landscape poetry

• Main Authors: Liu Kuo Tsan, 劉國璨
• Other Authors: 何廣棪
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51010310538414829842

碩士 === 華梵大學 === 東方人文思想研究所 === 98 === Since ancient times, the relationship between human and nature is inseparable. Nature sustains our physical existence and we seek spiritual sustenance in nature. The purpose of this study is to understand and discuss how Confucianism, Buddism, and Taoism are presented in Xie Lingyun’s landscape poems. The Liu Song Dynasty of China is one of the most important stages of landscape poetry development, and during that time, Xie Lingyun not only modified the popular metaphysical poetry style at the time but also became the first person to found the landscape poetry school. Using exquisite words to describe the beauty of nature and implying metaphysic allusions to describe feelings, his poems showed a unique style and furthermore had a significant impact on the development of Chinese literature. This paper first describes the political, economic, cultural and traditional backgrounds in which Xie Lingyun was facing to provide readers with a general understanding of the context. Next it focuses on how Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism affected his poetry and his point of view, and the implicit meaning in his poems. This study reveals that although Xie’s landscape poems include the three different ideologies, the ideologies shared a common thread. In other words, they are interwoven into Xie’s literary works. Accordingly, we propose that Confucianism, Taoisism, and Buddhism are fully blended in Xie Lingyun’s ideology.