The Philosophical Implications and Linguistic Sentiment of Zhu xi's "Dong gui luan gao

Zhu Xi's Dong gui luan gao represents Zhu Xi's journey experience and his own endeavor. The implications of the poetry anthology can be summarized as xin and Dao xin. Reflecting Zhu Xi's personality, Gui xin implies ethics and morality. Melancholy thinking of his family members in a strange place is an example showing his deep ethical emotion. Dominated with philosophy, Dao xin combines personal observation with aesthetic outlook. The informal style of Zhu Xi's poems results from his regarding philosophy as poetry and using poems as teaching resources. Zhu Xi's philosophical poetry was full of vitality in his times, reflecting his viewpoint, emotion and philosophical life, visualizing characteristics of philosophical discourses, widening aesthetic scope of Song poetry, enhancing applicable functions of the poetry. On the eastward journey, Zhu Xi created by chanting a myth keeping rationalistic thinking in harmony with ethical emotion and life taste.