The chapter The Notion of Qing in Early Chinese Thought’, edited by Halvor Eifering, begins with a definition of qíng as “emotions” or “passions” by most scholar. However, recently, two philosophies have a debate on the meaning of qíng in Chinese fourth through second centuries. First philosophy named Graham believe qíng means “essential qualities” and not “passions” which is supported by a book named Xunzi. Second philosophy, Chad Hansen, believes that qíng means “reality feedback” or “reality input” supported by a book named Huainanzi. The author of this chapter also has his own interpretation and understanding of qíng in four famous Chinese literature book- The Xing Zi Ming Chu, Xun Zi, Huainanzi, and Dong Zhongshu.
In Xing Zi Ming Chu, …show more content…
Following nature, qíng provide a natural basis for always, spontaneously undertaking correct actions. Qíng is also referred to “which one will naturally and spontaneously react to given circumstance” (62). In Dong Zhongshu, qíng has only one meaning which is desire and nothing more than that.
Word qíng remind me of the meaning of emotion when I first saw this word in this chapter. When I first learned this vocabulary in Elementary, I remembered my professor defined it as emotion or feeling because qíng’s left is a heart and it can feel things. If qíng were to combined with other word, it will give a different meaning like qíng yi and xing qíng, which means for loyalty and disposition respectively. The word that mentions in Xing Zi Ming Chu. Qíng was a different word to explain, but four books explain it in its own way. In Xing Zi Ming Chu, qíng means “defending earlier traditions as being both natural and necessary” (p.64). In The Xun zi, qíng is defined as “simply emotions that must be controlled through the artifice of rituals, and other time he presented suck artifice as being precisely what was necessary to nourish properly and fulfill of qíng” (p.64). In Huainanzi, qíng is defined as “it involved one’s spontaneous responses, one need only refine oneself to become ever more resonant, and ever more in accordance with qíng, to be a ble to act properly“(p.64). In Dong Zhongshu, qíng only definition is desire. It is very impressive how the author can interpret a word with so many different meaning and supported it with so many famous
In Xing Zi Ming Chu, …show more content…
Following nature, qíng provide a natural basis for always, spontaneously undertaking correct actions. Qíng is also referred to “which one will naturally and spontaneously react to given circumstance” (62). In Dong Zhongshu, qíng has only one meaning which is desire and nothing more than that.
Word qíng remind me of the meaning of emotion when I first saw this word in this chapter. When I first learned this vocabulary in Elementary, I remembered my professor defined it as emotion or feeling because qíng’s left is a heart and it can feel things. If qíng were to combined with other word, it will give a different meaning like qíng yi and xing qíng, which means for loyalty and disposition respectively. The word that mentions in Xing Zi Ming Chu. Qíng was a different word to explain, but four books explain it in its own way. In Xing Zi Ming Chu, qíng means “defending earlier traditions as being both natural and necessary” (p.64). In The Xun zi, qíng is defined as “simply emotions that must be controlled through the artifice of rituals, and other time he presented suck artifice as being precisely what was necessary to nourish properly and fulfill of qíng” (p.64). In Huainanzi, qíng is defined as “it involved one’s spontaneous responses, one need only refine oneself to become ever more resonant, and ever more in accordance with qíng, to be a ble to act properly“(p.64). In Dong Zhongshu, qíng only definition is desire. It is very impressive how the author can interpret a word with so many different meaning and supported it with so many famous