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  Xie Lingyun Biography / Profile
Xie Lingyun (SHEE-EH LIHNG-yewn) was born into one of the most powerful aristocratic families of the Six Dynasties, one that was at the center of cultural and literary movements.
The Xie family moved from Henan to Zhejiang province.
Xie spent much time wandering around the country looking at celebrated landscapes.
www.enotes.com /salem-lit/xie-lingyun   (122 words)

  
  Xie Lingyun at AllExperts
Xie Lingyun, 謝靈運, also called Xie Kanglo, (385-422) was a Chinese author.
He was an official in the Eastern Qin and Liu-Sung dynasties, however factional intrigues led to his dismissal and exile.
Xie Lingyun was a devout Buddhist and was considered a nature or landscape poet focusing on the "mountain and steam" instead of "Field and Garden" landscapes.
en.allexperts.com /e/x/xi/Xie_Lingyun.htm   (179 words)

  
 Myth as Rhetoric: The Quest of the Goddess in Six Dynasties Poetry
Xie Lingyun's wandering in the mountains might have started partly as a political protest that was ironically meant to be an entreaty for his sovereign to grant him a more worthy favor.
Written in 422 when Xie Lingyun, at the age of 38, was on his way to take his newly appointed post as the Grand Warden of the Yongjia district, these six lines adumbrate the basic form of the landscape poetry he was to write throughout the rest of his turbulent life.
Xie Lingyun's descriptive procedure in this poem follows, as Kangi Sun Chang points out, "a distinctive method of alternation, one which moves between mountain scenes and water scenes."(Note 61) Chang also indicates that even the plants and birds are distributed according to the mountain/water spectrum.
www.lib.ccu.edu.tw /indoor/journal/jnccu/v6s1_9.htm   (13343 words)

  
 Xie Lingyun Biography
Article abstract: Chinese poet and philosopher{$I[g]China;Xie Lingyun} Xie Lingyun was the first and greatest of China’s nature poets, the founder of a school of verse.
Xie Lingyun (shyee ling-yewn) was born into one of China’s most powerful and illustrious aristocratic families of the Six Dynasties (420-589 c.e.).
As secretary of the Imperial Library, his father was the least prepossessing member of the Xie...
www.enotes.com /salem-history/xie-lingyun   (127 words)

  
 Xie Lingyun
Xie Lingyun was an excellent poet in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
He integrated his personal feelings into the depiction of nature and landscape.
He was a devout Buddhist and a founder of landscape poetry that focuses on “moutain and streams” rather than “field and garden.” His poems were frequently criticized for the complexity.
www.courses.vcu.edu /ENGL624-nf/woods/sensory/Eastermain/poets_introductions/xie_lingyun.htm   (54 words)

  
 Yandang Mountain
There's a river named Jinxi River whose source is Dalong Qiu and it passes Jinzhu Jian then inflows into Qingjiang River and into the sea in the end.
It is said that Xie Lingyun explored Jinchu Jian but failed to climb the mountain then missed the chance to explore Dalong Qiu.
If it's not that case, the first one who explored Mt. Yandang would not have been a foreign monk named Nuojuna.
en.wzyds.com /dalongqiu.shtml   (627 words)

  
 Xie Lingyun - Chinese Literature - Chinese Art
Xie Lingyun - Chinese Literature - Chinese Art
Xie Lingyun, 謝靈運 (385-422) was a ChinaChinese author.
He was one of the foremost poets of the Period of Disunion, also called the Chinese Dark Ages.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Xie_Lingyun   (121 words)

  
 M. Elvin: Nature as revelation
Xie Lingyun slightly later sketched the outline of a philosophy based on the idea that the 'delighting heart' or 'responsive mind'--alternative translations of the same key term--interacting aesthetically with the natural world, was the means of achieving Buddhist enlightenment.
Xie was sensitive to the dual origin of a poem: both personal experience mediated through previous literature, and previous literature developed further on the basis of personal experience.
Xie is living, not uncomfortably, at the end of a hunting culture when the expanded growing of cereals and vegetables has made hunting obsolescent.
www.zmk.uni-freiburg.de /rheineintern/Elvin.htm   (17096 words)

  
 Mountain Songs
Xie Lingyun belonged to an influential and wealthy family centered in today's
Thereafter Xie held a number of official positions but came under increasing disfavor for his arrogant behavior toward men in power and his riotous parties and neglect of official duties.
In 431 he was again exiled to the south near Guangzhou and after staging a small uprising was publicly executed in 433.
www.mountainsongs.net /poet_.php?id=199   (126 words)

  
 Xie Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
This new translation of the autobiography of Xie Bingying (1906-2000) -- an important Chinese feminist, pioneering "girl soldier," and skilled writer -- provides a fascinating portrayal of a woman fighting to free herself from the constraints of ancient Chinese tradition in the context of the dramatic changes that shook China during the 1920s, '30s...
Drawing on a rich vein of feminist theory and research, Xie illuminates Godwin's representation of female identity, the development of her vision, and the evolution of her art.
Ageing and dependence are two important characteristics in reliability and survival analysis, and they affect significantly the decision people make with regard to maintenance, repair/replacement, price setting, warranties, medical studies, and other areas.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Xie   (1168 words)

  
 People's Daily Online -- Chinese surname history: Xie
In late West Zhou Dynasty, to tighten control of the southern part, King Zhouxuanwang dispatched Zhaobo to attack and occupy the State of Xie and gave the land to his uncle Shen Boxi.
The people of the State of Xie changed their surnames to Xie in commemoration of their state thereafter.
Celebrities surnamed Xie include Xie An, of Eastern Jin Dynasty, who is famous for his indifference to fame and money; and poet Xie Lingyun in Southern Song Dynasty.
english.people.com.cn /200512/29/eng20051229_231668.html   (197 words)

  
 Xie Lingyun Biography
Article abstract: Chinese poet and philosopher{$I[g]China;Xie Lingyun} Xie Lingyun was the first and greatest of China’s nature poets, the founder of a school of verse.
A philosophical syncretist, he blended elements of Confucianism and Daoism with Buddhism to produce a uniquely Chinese synthesis.
As secretary of the Imperial Library, his father was the least prepossessing member of the Xie...
history.enotes.com /salem-history/xie-lingyun   (127 words)

  
 La montaña Lushan
Según dicen que fue construido por Xie Lingyun, una persona famosa de la dinastía Jin de Este.
Era bisnieto del conocido político Xie Xuan y sobrino del gran calígrafo Wang Xizhi.
Cuando Huiyuan falleció, Xie Lingyuan estaba muy triste y vino a la montaña Lushan desde la ciudad Jiankang(actual Nanjing) e hizo un epitafio para Huiyuan.
espanol.chinabroadcast.cn /chinaabc/chapter16/chapter160310.htm   (657 words)

  
 Wei Yingwu   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A native of the capital Chang'an, Wei served as an imperial guard in his youth and held several posts in the capital despite the fact that he never sat for any degree.
His poetry is frequently associated with that of earlier "nature poets"; influences included Tao Qian and Xie Lingyun.
Wei excelled in the composition of pentasyllabic ancient-style verse, which is celebrated for its direct and yet dignified style.
www.renditions.org /renditions/authors/weiyw.html   (105 words)

  
 Informat.io on Liu Song Dynasty
The court of Emperor Wen was especially active in literary circles, with Liu supporting the compilation of a large collection of short prose anecdotes, A New Account of Tales of the World (Shishuo xinyu).
The "Three Giants of Yuanjia," Bao Zhao 鮑照 (d.466), Xie Lingyun 謝霊運 (385-422), and Yan Yanzhi 顏延之 (384-456) are perhaps the most famous poets of the Song, each of them being credited as the originators of the three major literary trends to follow.
Buddhism also began to be better understood and more widely practised at this time, and some officials such as Xie Lingyun, were Buddhists.
www.informat.io /?title=liu-song-dynasty   (494 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Xie Zhaozhe": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tian Rucheng m ;,k A (jinshi j+ 1526), Wang Shixing, Cao Xuequan p t Tk (1574-1646) and Xie Zhaozhe (1567-1624), all of whose works, with the exception of Tian Rucheng's, were consulted by Xu Xiake during his travels.
According to Xie Zhaozhe (writing in the early seventeenth century), this tax was known by the euphemism "rouge and face powder cash" (zhi fen...
Not everyone took the stricter view: the essayist Xie Zhaozhe (156-7-1624) said that worry and anxiety could do more damage than sexual intercourse, while the irreverent playwright Li Yu lampooned...
www.amazon.com /phrase/Xie-Zhaozhe   (614 words)

  
 Chinese Artists
Fan Zeng followed the great painters of the Song dynasty in using simple and vigorous strokes of the brush and dynamic delineation of form.
This painting depicts the poet, Xie Lingyun, a famous poet of the Southern dynasty period.
This poet who was born of a distinguished family traveled widely and left a wealth of poems that extol nature's beauty.
www.asia-art.net /chinese_artist1.html   (525 words)

  
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Juhl, Robert A. "The literary dialect of Xie Zhuang," Journal of Chinese Languages 3:2-3 (1975).
"Xie Daoyun: The Style of a Woman Mingshi." In: The Virtue of Yin: Studies on Chinese Women, Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Canberra: Wild Peony Press, 1994, pp.25-46.
"Der 'Landschafts-Buddhismus' in der Dichtung Xie Lingyuns (385-433)", Horin: Vergleichende Studien zur japanischen Kultur 3 (1996): 15-33.
www.usc.edu /isd/archives/arc/libraries/eastasian/china/emcg/wjbiblio.htm   (13677 words)

  
 TIMEasia Magazine: Retreat To the Past
When Kohei Watanabe, a 31-year-old advertising executive in Tokyo, visited for a corporate retreat, he remarked: "This place has shown me how to be Japanese." Although the concrete is still encroaching, Iya goes on being a "thin place," a doorway to Japan's ancient Shinto roots.
When I was still a young romantic, I imagined that I was following in the footsteps of the 5th century Chinese nature poet Xie Lingyun.
His dream house was "a mysterious dwelling of the utmost emptiness, hung round with wild plants like a mist." The owner of such a house, wrote Xie, would "deduce heaven and earth and straddle the four seas" from his perch above the clouds.
www.time.com /time/asia/2004/journey/japan3.html   (731 words)

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