Aesthetics and Art by Jianping Gao

Author:Jianping Gao
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg

From these ideas, Confucius drew a famous inference:When zhi prevails over wen, a man gets the boorishness of the rustic. When wen prevails over zhi, he gets the pedantry of the scribe. Only when wen and zhi are duly blended does he become the junzi (a superior man or true gentleman). (6.16.)

To use the simplest words, zhi is the virtue of a man, and wen is his ability to express the virtue. This dichotomy of human characteristics may also apply to literature and the arts. From here, we can find the possibility of the theory of content and form. But Confucius himself did not pronounce on it and left the task to his followers.

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