| Abstrakt: |
According to autobiographic experts from Tao Yuanming, this paper completely overturns the quondam depiction which asserted that Tao hadn’t understood music. In addition, the text restores the story of “No-String Qin” to his life in music and literature, and illustrates it in a new perspective. The article argues that music art not only took up an important position in his daily life, but also exerted a significant impact on his literary composition. Due to his knowledge in music, Tao had keen insight in all kinds of wonderful natural sound, and returned to Lao tzu’s ontology. In fact, “No-String Qin” encompassed “Existing arises from non-existing”, “The greatest note rarely sounds” and “exists and not-exists mutually sprout” of Taoist ontology. Meanwhile, it had both charm of Artistic Spirit and contemplation of Philosophical Meditation which made is evocative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
