The Fascination of Chinese Classical Poetry in Transforming Time into Space

The relation between time and space in Chinese classical poetry can be divided into two patterns:the internal and external time-space relations.In appreciation of poetry from the relation of time and space,the formation of aesthetic experience is due to transforming time into space in the aesthetic structure of poetry,rather than time leading space or space being converged into time in the aesthetic process.Universal consciousness in Chinese culture and the unique fascination of literature and art works are all complying with the basic mental structure,which can be described as searching for the feeling of homeland in perceptible and realistic space.Poems transforming time into space can be summarized as followed:time being absorbed into space,time and space being combined into space,circling space.The estrangement between time and space may generate the consciousness of tragedy which means everything is insignificant and life is null and void as nothing.In poems it is expressed as followed:time as a negative factor to space,space cannot be set as a home for time,the detachment of time and space and so on.The consciousness of tragedy becomes an important kind of aesthetic fascination in classical poetry because of the compatibility with Chinese mode of value construction in traditional culture.