Reference no: EM133732904
Assignment:
I. How are traditional Chinese ideas such as Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism and Buddhism seen in Chinese cultural phenomena? Discuss your understanding with detailed explanation of Three examples from the following list (Please discuss ONE idea with each example).
1. Li Bai: "On the Mountain: Question and Answer";
2. Du Fu: "Thoughts on a Night Journey";
3. Wang Wei (701-761). "Deer Park" "Birdsong Brook"
4. Zhang Yue: "On the Dancing Horses (of Emperor Xuanzong)
5. Music: "Flowing Water,"
6. Music: "Wine Frolic";
7. Sun Wei: "The Hermits" (painting)
8. Xia Gui: "Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains"
II. During the Middle Imperial Age in China, the co-existence of the Three Doctrines (that is, Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism are not exclusive to each other, but are seen as different aspects of the same standards) were established. How is the co-existence of the Three Doctrines reflected in Chinese culture? Discuss your understanding with detailed explanation of Three of the following list:
1. Traditional Chinese residential buildings;
2. the Humble Administrator's Garden;
3. Excerpt from Zhang Yanyuan's Record of Famous Paintings of Successive Dynasties;
4. Guo Bi: "A Scholar-Painter's Dairy";
5. Zhao Ji's "Listening to the Qin,"(painting)
6. Zhou Wenju's "The Garden of the Literati," (painting)
7. "Go game meeting before the double-screen" (painting);
8. "The Cadaver Demon" from The Journey to the West