This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...linger in the west." His account of Sleep-Land is based upon the DrunkLand of Wang Chi: --"A pure administration and admirable morals prevail there, the whole being one vast level tract, with no north, south, east, or west. The inhabitants are quiet and affable; they suffer from no diseases of any kind, neither are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...linger in the west." His account of Sleep-Land is based upon the DrunkLand of Wang Chi: --"A pure administration and admirable morals prevail there, the whole being one vast level tract, with no north, south, east, or west. The inhabitants are quiet and affable; they suffer from no diseases of any kind, neither are they subject to the influences of the seven passions. They have no concern with the ordinary affairs of life; they do not distinguish heaven, earth, the sun, and the moon; they toil not, neither do they spin; but simply lie down and enjoy themselves. They have no ships and no carriages; their wanderings, however, are the boundless flights of the imagination." His younger brother, Su Cut (1039-1112), poet and official, is chiefly known for his devotion to Taoism. He published an edition, with commentary, of the TaoTi-Ching. One of the Four Scholars of his century is Huang T'ing-chien (1050-1110), who was distinguished as a poet and a calligraphist. He has also been placed among the twenty-four examples of filial piety, for when his mother was ill he watched by her bedside for a whole year without ever taking off his clothes. The following is a specimen of his epistolary style: --"Hsi K'ang's verses are at once vigorous and purely beautiful, without a vestige of commonplace about them. Every student of the poetic art should know them thoroughly, and thus bring the author into his mind's eye. "Those who are sunk in the cares and anxieties of this world's strife, even by a passing glance would gain ther efrom enough to clear away some pecks of the cobwehls of mortality. How much more they who penetrate furjther and seize each hidden meaning and enjoy its flawour to the full? Therefore, my nephew, I send you these poems for fami...
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