Two Dimensions of the Generation of the Allusion"Weeping in Xin Ting"
The story of"Weeping in Xin Ting"(Xin Ting Dui Qi)in A New Account of Tales of the World(Shi Shuo Xin Yu)shapes two complementary characters.One is Zhou Yi who is despaired and helpless in the face of the loss of the territory,and the other is Wang Dao who rises from grief.This story contains the aesthetic characteristics of sadness,the patriotic sentiment of concern for the country and the people,and other cultural elements,highlighting the creative trend of evocation by external objects and taking"evocation"as beauty in the Six Dynasties.It has triggered the emotional resonance of many later generations.After being accepted and recorded by the historians of the early Tang Dynasty,"Weeping in Xin Ting"has been gradually canonized.Later literati continued to use,rewrite,quote this term and and it became a literary allusion with the nature of a motif,covering a variety of aesthetic styles,such as poetry,ci,prose,drama,and even in some Confucian classics.In different cultural fields and political contexts,the literati associated themselves with the two basic meanings of the term,i.e.,the aesthetic characteristics of sadness and the patriotic sentiment of concern for the country and the people.They also derived many feelings and suggestive meanings from it,such as the lament over rise and fall,the sense of seclusion,the feeling of grief and anger,the loneliness of drifting around,and the state of embarrassment,making it a rich semantic field.An exploration of the canonization process of"Weeping in Xin Ting"can clarify the internal logic and external opportunity of the generation and construction of literary canons,enrich the specific cognition of the Chinese cultural gene that takes sadness as aesthetic and the awareness of unexpected development,and deepen people's understanding of the aesthetic cultural community.
Weeping in Xin TingTaking Sadness as AestheticPatriotic SentimentCanonization
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