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Acceptance of Mohism and the Change of Poetics Notion in Middle Tang Dynasty

Ren Ya-fang

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Middle Tang Dynasty was a period of transformation,and also was a flourishing stage of ideological concepts.Facing the decline of Tang Dynasty after its prosperity,the intellectuals not only put forward the ideas and measures of revival on politics and economics,but also pondered actively in theory aspect.The academic circles paid more attention on the acceptance of Confucianism,Daoism and Buddhism in middle Tang Dynasty.The article emphasizes the acceptance of Mohism from two aspects namely Confucianism and Mohism have the similar spirit,and they are with strong complementarities.Different mentalities of the intellectuals in middle Tang Dynasty are further analyzed,and then as the individual case,Mengjiao's state of mind and industrious versification view are studied.

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Middle Tang Dynasty was a period of transformation,and also was a flourishing stage of ideological concepts.Facing the decline of Tang Dynasty after its prosperity,the intellectuals not only put forward the ideas and measures of revival on politics and economics,but also pondered actively in theory aspect.The academic circles paid more attention on the acceptance of Confucianism,Daoism and Buddhism in middle Tang Dynasty.The article emphasizes the acceptance of Mohism from two aspects namely Confucianism and Mohism have the similar spirit,and they are with strong complementarities.Different mentalities of the intellectuals in middle Tang Dynasty are further analyzed,and then as the individual case,Mengjiao's state of mind and industrious versification view are studied.

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Middle Tang Dynasty was a period of transformation,and also was a flourishing stage of ideological concepts.Facing the decline of Tang Dynasty after its prosperity,the intellectuals not only put forward the ideas and measures of revival on politics and economics,but also pondered actively in theory aspect.The academic circles paid more attention on the acceptance of Confucianism,Daoism and Buddhism in middle Tang Dynasty.The article emphasizes the acceptance of Mohism from two aspects namely Confucianism and Mohism have the similar spirit,and they are with strong complementarities.Different mentalities of the intellectuals in middle Tang Dynasty are further analyzed,and then as the individual case,Mengjiao's state of mind and industrious versification view are studied.

Key concepts: Mohism, Flourishing, Prosperity, Buddhism, Ideology, Poetics, Politics, Period (music)

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