Xiaoxiang
Xiaoxiang (
The following quote succinctly describes the authors who helped shape the literary image of the Xiaoxiang and their feelings in that regard:
With few exceptions, their compositions adopted the literary trope of the south as a place of unjust exile, and the XiaoXiang literary paradigm came to be permeated with the themes of separation and accusations that the sovereigns were listening to the wrong men. Even the name XiaoXiang has a melancholy ring.
The name Xiaoxiang comes in part from the name of the Xiang River, which rises in the mountains of Guangxi and flows into Dongting Lake. There is a modern Xiao River, which is a tributary of the Xiang River, and joins it near present-day cities of Yongzhou and Changsha; however, the name Xiaoxiang predates the bestowing of that name on the Xiao River: originally the adjective xiao, meaning "clear and deep", was used to descriptively for the Xiang River.[2]
The Xiaoxiang region is the somewhat imaginative location of the various eponymous and highly symbolic Eight Views of Xiaoxiang series of eight paintings and/or poetry verses.
See also
- Cangwu County
- Changsha
- Chu (state)
- Chuci
- Classical Chinese poetry
- Dong Yuan
- Dongting Lake
- Eight Views of Xiaoxiang
- Hunan
- Miluo River
- Qu Yuan
- Shōnan
- Shun (Chinese leader)
- Spotted bamboo
- Xiang River
- Xiang River goddesses
- Xiao River
- Xiaoxiang poetry
- Yongzhou
References
Citations
- ^ Murck (2000), p. 6.
- ^ Murck (2000), pp. 6–7.
Sources
- Cited sources
- Murck, Alfreda (2000). Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent. ISBN 978-0-674-00782-6.