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Ancient Chinese Literature - Pavsee Gajjar

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Pavsee Gajjar

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It was very interesting to read about ancient Chinese literature. One thing that stood out to me was the difference between the North and the South. The Southern part of China usually focused on love stories whereas the northern part focused on societal issues. The reading said that the reason for this was because there were usually more wars going on in the north than in the south. I figure it's because people were writing about what was effecting them at the time. So since the south was not under as much pressure as the north it makes sense for their story lines to be about love and other happy things. This would not be the case if there were war and chaos around you.

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Khadijah Bennett

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Khadijah Bennett

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First off, I apologize in advance if this is a double post. I don't know what happened to my first one. Anyway ancient mythology is probably one of my favorite things ever to read about so I was excited to learn about Chinese literature that included myths for the purpose of this class. Some of the myths mentioned I knew about but there are many out there that elude me. One of my favorites that I know about is the story "Nu Wa Mends the Sky". A story I found interesting is Gun and Yu Harness Water which is basically a story about a father and son who try to stop floods in a village.

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Henry Reidy

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Henry Reidy

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Much like Western culture, ancient Chinese mythology focuses much on explaining the unknown and helping to explain why we humans are on this Earth. Even the creation story prevalent in China helps to enforce the concept of the five traditional Chinese elements and the roles they played in the lives of the folk of yore. From this point out the many millennia of cultural development and the varied people of the vast nation developed their own individual literary arts, many of which are still important today in China. While the forms are different, the themes expressed in the poetry, parables, and songs written by Chinese authors reflect the traditional virtues which would be reinforced by the likes of Confucius and Mencius. It's amazing to consider how vast and profound the long-lasting Chinese cultures were before the existence of the majority of modern nation states and cultures alike.

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Kaitlyn Tinsley

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Kaitlyn Tinsley

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I found this chapter to be very interesting. I had not previously known anything about Chinese literature so I enjoyed reading this. I particularly liked reading about the Four Great Folklores. It is interesting how much thought is put into these stories and I liked how they were all about love and all were representative of how people see true love. I also enjoyed reading about the mythologies. It was nice to learn more about Chinese literature and to see how it differs from American literature.

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Ancient Chinese Literature- Dana Herrault

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Ancient Chinese Literature- Dana Herrault

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Learning about ancient Chinese literature was very interesting. I found similar themes of love also translated in songs of today’s society.  I found that a lot of the Chinese poems were sad. They interpret the struggles of life around them. When hearing about Liu Lanzhi’s story it reminded me a little of Romeo and Juliet, how they both end up dying for love. Also I found it interesting that the story of Mulan started as a poem and is now a very popular movie. It seems that in ancient Chinese culture, art and literature were more important, where as, now the Chinese value math and science.

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I used to hate ancient literature class when I was in middle school, beauce it is such a precise language that even a slight different world choice can make a huge difference in what you are trying to say. However, as I grow older, I understand the structure of the chinese characters more through ancient literature.

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Michelle Dominado 

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Michelle Dominado 

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I enjoyed reading this section. I love reading folk lore and mythologies, although I wasn't a fan of poetry. I remember the story of Lady White and Xu Xian because I had to do research on a particular Chinese story for a school project. There's a sense of beauty in Chinese literature. I wonder if that is somehow reflected in modern Chinese stories, particularly in media and movies.

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Ancient Chinese Literature- Jia Ming Zheng

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Ancient Chinese Literature- Jia Ming Zheng

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Out of all the chapters, this was the one that I was most unfamiliar with. Even though I am from a Chinese background, I was never thoughtChinese Literature. Therefore, I was not aware of all the stories, songs and poems tolded about in this chapter. I realized that a lot of the literature in this tell a beautiful story. They talked about the things that are important during that period of time. For example, the poems during the Han dynasty talked a lot about poverty of the laboring class, the misery caused by wars, the opposition to feudal marriage customs and the pursuit for true love, etc. I also see a common theme throughout all the dynasties which is true love. However, a lot of the stories are sad. Mengjiangnü, Liu Lanzh, The Cowherd and the Girl Weaver, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai are all sad.

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Jillian Kilgore

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Jillian Kilgore

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I really liked this chapter it was a lot of new information. I enjoyed learning about the mythology and folk songs. It was interesting to learn the differences of how American literature and Chinese literature was developed. I feel like I've seen a lot of artwork from these stories in the past but I never knew the story behind these images.

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This chapter is quite captivating. The reason I said that because Chinese people from the ancient era know how to insert moralities into poems, books, and songs. They made learning and educating others not boring. Moreover, Chinese people are very knowledgeable of their natures and surroundings with an effort to conquer it. As everyone knows, Mother Nature is not easy on anyone. And it's amazing that until this day younger generations still grown fond of this type of literature

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Ancient Chinese Literature- Jamal Henderson

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Ancient Chinese Literature- Jamal Henderson

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This is a very interesting chapter. I think the "Book of Song's" is so unique and certainly brings originality to the Chinese Culture. It's hard to grasp the fact that hundreds of years ago someone was creating Poetry and thought it would be a great idea to convert into something musical.

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Sheena Zeng

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Sheena Zeng

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I really like Chinese literature, having grown up with my parents telling me Chinese folktales, like Lady White and Xu Xian and  Mengjiangnü . Of all the literature discussed, I'm most familiar with Journey to the West, though I never knew it was called that actually because I knew it just as Stories of the Monkey King. I never knew that Mulan was actually based on a real story and not just something that Disney made up which is cool.

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This content was interesting because of the Three Kingdoms. I did not know that the Three Kingdoms came from Wei, Shu, and Wu. I know some what of the three kingdoms because of the CSA at VCU. For example, as a family in CSA, I was part of the Wei family and we used to play game and go against each other to receive a family points. But another thing was I looked up what the Three Kingdoms in Korean and it was called 삼국사기. When I was little, there was a game that I used to play everyday and it was like taking over or capturing the city. And when I saw the name in Korean, it reminded of that and it was the same thing as the Three Kingdoms.

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Taylor Smith: Ancient Chinese Literature 

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Taylor Smith: Ancient Chinese Literature 

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It was very interesting to learn about ancient Chinese literature. I am not familiar with Chinese Literature except for the poem of Mulan. I did not know about the Book of Songs and how it is the first collection of poems in China. It's very interesting to me, how over 500 years, 305 poems were created and collected. Also Confucius used the Book of Songs to teach his disciples.

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Ancient Chinese Literature, Emma Yokois 

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Chinese literature is a tapestry of genres and includes many different forms of writing. From poetry, to historical archival writing, to theater- it is very vast. It seems as if they can be categorized into many different groups. Across time, style, and the place that they derived from, seems to be the most fitting. I thought that it was interesting when the reading mentioned the different types of Chinese literature, specifically Yuan Zaju (opera of the Yuan Dynasty) mainly because it incorporates singing, dancing, music, and poetry. You can relate the correlation in play wright to British literature, say for example Shakespeare- who wrote a midsummer's night dream. In China, a famous play is snow in midsummer. Although different plots, both are classics. I think that Chinese playwright is however, more complex because it incorporates a lot more of the arts, not just singing, dancing, and acting. It is very interesting to investigate and learn about this aspect of the culture. Is the performing arts still highly valued? For example, if a child aspires to be a creative performer, is it common like in America, for children and teenagers to pursue this career path?

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The mythology of the Chinese culture always caught my attention in the past due to the creatures and the beautiful drawings associated with these stories. However, I never read into the meaning of the stories. With that said, using these stories as sources of coping while dealing with harsh realities this world has to offer is very ideal in a society where things can be great but also very challenging. I feel as though, having a sense of relatedness to an older individual or an individual in the past helps someone to cope in a hard time. Thus, using these stories as a source of literature that helped those who wrote the later literature used in the Chinese culture gives a sense of unity. Showing that if another individual got through these hardships in the past all you have to do is hold on and tough it out to make it to the end.

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I like reading about the ancient mythologies because it is interesting to learn how the people think about nature and helped them develop literature. the people use these mythologies to continue development and inspiration.

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Ancient Chinese Literature- Ava Arabshahi 

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I didn't know much information about Chinese literature, it was interesting to learn and see how it is different from American literature. What I really like about Chinese Literature is how it reflects Chinese peoples culture and ideas and faith and pass it from one generation to another.

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Many literature pieces are great to be taught. For this reason the schools in China will take some famous pieces in the textbook. Evryone is required to understand and recite them. It actually helps us to learn some virtual and thoughts from the historical people.

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Ian Serrano

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Ian Serrano

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Many of my favorite movies have been influenced by Chinese literature. Besides that, I heard a lot about ancient Chinese songs and poetry. But I never learned much more past that. The only thing I can really remember in detail is Chinese mythology. Ne Zha, Sun Wukong, Zhong Kui, He Bo...you name it. I really love mythology and that's what I best remember. But I know nothing else in detail.

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Ancient Chinese Literature- Tiffany Choi

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Ancient Chinese Literature- Tiffany Choi

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In my childhood I heard a lot of different chinese stories, the Monkey King (or the journey to the West) was my favorite one. I find most of the love stories are pretty strange, like the Butterfly Lovers: Leon and Jo. However what I find great about every story is that they all have a theme and can be applied in real life.

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Preston Nowlin

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Preston Nowlin

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I had never read anything on Chinese literature so it was a really interesting section to read because it was on something that I had zero previous knowledge on. This different folktales were very interesting to see if they were similar to any that I was read as a kid here in the U.S. The similarities and differences was interesting. I wonder what they think of American literature?

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Ancient Chinese Literature: Hyunseung Yuk

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Ancient Chinese Literature: Hyunseung Yuk

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I wasn't really familiar with the Chinese literature, it was interesting on how the Chinese literature is related to nature, music, love, and Chinese beliefs. I found the four great folktales interesting. It's really interesting how the Chinese literature and the American literature are so different.

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both chinese literature and history are very influential on present day culture. i do not know a lot about the culture but i do know that confucianism is a important aspect of chinese culture and one that i find really interesting. the four great folktales are new to me and were really interesting literature. i like how each story represents love and loss, and are scenarios of chinese beliefs. the perspectives of symbolism and meanings really interpreted the folkloric figures and helped me to gain a better understanding of the culture, present and past.

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Chinese literature is just so different and unique in it's own way. They tend to all be related to the Earth/nature and how it works.  I found the Chinese Mythologies really interesting, especially the story of Na Wu mends the sky. It's cool how much these kind of mythological stories influence Chinese literature for years to come. Very different from the western world.

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Ancient Chinese Literature: Priscilla Franklin

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Ancient Chinese Literature: Priscilla Franklin

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Even after reading this chapter, I am trying to absorb all of the information. I did not know that China was so prolific in literature, poetry novels. I have not heard of the four great folklores or before. I was especially interested in reading about Chinese plays.  As a fellow theatre student, does China have plays with modern storytelling and modern clothes? China seems to always wear traditional outfits and makeup while recreating ancient folklore.

I have heard of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms before when I was researching about Chinese history for my design project. It is related to the historic "The Revolt of the Three Feudatories" during the reign of Emperor Kangxi.

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Chinese literature is so humble yet meaningful, since most derived from everyday life. It is interesting to learn about the origin of the movie 'Mulan'. Reading about the four great folklores, which consist love stories, I was wondering if it is similar to stories like 'snow white' or 'sleeping beauty'

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The entire Chinese language as a whole is incredible, from songs to poetry to folk tales and just their everyday literature. I found the section on Tang Poetry to be the most interesting piece. In 300 years, 50,000 famous poems were created, and many of them remain widely known today, which is really cool. I really liked that even way back then, the Tang poets used "modern style" poetry. It was nice to read that still today, Tang poems are still a big hit among Chinese people, and many of them can still be recited by young Chinese children. The books are still best sellers at home and abroad as well, which is crazy how it stayed that way over all that time.

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Yasmine Ray

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Ancient Chinese Literature - Yasmine Ray

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The Chinese Literature is fascinating to me, because its so diverse and different.I think its great that these literature's also morph very well with Chinese traditions. Watching these videos in class I learn that the word for old/elderly is "Lao" and i also learned that this word can be translated to "experienced" as well. so just like a Spanish word can mean many things depending on the context is kind of the same as Chinese words it can mean a lot of different things.