“Observing the Image,” “Explaining with Language,” and “Setting Up Religion with the Divine Way”: Divination and Literary Problems in Jiao Gong's <i>Forest of Yi</i> from the Perspective of Literary Qiao-Yi

LI Chuan

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214308

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LI Chuan. “Observing the Image,” “Explaining with Language,” and “Setting Up Religion with the Divine Way”: Divination and Literary Problems in Jiao Gong's Forest of Yi from the Perspective of Literary Qiao-Yi[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2021, 4(3): 543-558. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214308

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LI Chuan. “Observing the Image,” “Explaining with Language,” and “Setting Up Religion with the Divine Way”: Divination and Literary Problems in Jiao Gong's Forest of Yi from the Perspective of Literary Qiao-Yi[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2021, 4(3): 543-558. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214308

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“Observing the Image,” “Explaining with Language,” and “Setting Up Religion with the Divine Way”: Divination and Literary Problems in Jiao Gong's Forest of Yi from the Perspective of Literary Qiao-Yi

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214308

LI Chuan^,

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Received Date: 2021-01-08
Accepted Date: 2021-02-10

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Modern Chinese literature is the product of the intervention of Western dualism. There are two levels: time and space. From the perspective of space, it is necessary for Chinese literature and foreign literature to be integrated in the global vision of world literature; from the perspective of time, we should pay attention to the significance of the debate between ancient and modern for the reflection of current literary concepts. These two levels are exactly the direction of Qiao-Yiology studies. With the disintegration of the traditional system of Confucian classics, Jiao Gong's The Forest of Yi was first regarded as a “literary” work, and there were many factors in literature. The Forest of Yi is rooted in the five principles of “setting up images to fulfill the meaning” in Zhouyi, which proves the value of“the integration of iconology.” No matter the teaching of Zhouyi, or the teaching of the Book of Songs, and other Confucian classics, all contain the logic of the origin of Chinese literature. Understanding this logic can further explore the value and significance of The Forest of Yi in the current context. As far as the divination system of The Forest of Yi is concerned, its “observing the image” is the tradition of Zhouyi, its “explaining with language” is the tradition of the Book of Songs, and its expressive characteristics are poetic and intuitive rather than logical and rational. It is also necessary to reexamine the test system of The Forest of Yi from the perspective of readjusting our way of life and rethinking the struggle of modern people in the universe to cope with the crisis of modern scientism. Within the tradition of Yi-ology, divination has always been a branch and an end, and the emphasis on virtue is the core idea of Confucian classics. However, the emphasis on virtue in the Zhouyi is based on the theory of divinity, which is full of fatalism.
- Qiao-Yiology,
- literary,
- The Forest of Yi by Jiao Gong,
- setting up religion with the Divine Way

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