ДО ПИТАННЯ МЕТАФОРИЧНОСТІ ДАОСЬКОГО ТРАКТАТУ ІІІСТОЛІТТЯ"КНИГА ЖОВТОГО ДВОРИКА"ТАЇЇВІДЛУННЯУ РАННЬОСЕРЕДНЬОВІЧНІЙ КИТАЙСЬКІЙ ПОЕЗІЇ

Abstract

The question of the metaphoricity of the Taoist treatise of the 3rd century ʺBook of the Yellow Courtʺ has been investigated; the reflection of Taoist ideas (as well as similar Buddhist) in traditional Chinese poetry have been traced (works by Cao Cao, Wang Wei, Sikong Tu and Ouyang Xiu). We have shown that the metaphoric nature of the ʺBookʺ is due to the eternal tradition of seeing a deep analogy between the micro- and macrocosm, feeling the original holiness of everything and the incorporation of a person into it. This metaphoric nature is already manifested in the title of the ʺBookʺ, since yellow as the color of the center, the earth and the court as an inner closed room reflect the typically Taoist idea of the importance of a tiny center in the human body, able to control not only the whole body but also the Higher Forces of the Universe. It was emphasized the importance of creating poetry in a particular altered state of consciousness, when the artist, feeling unity with all things, is able to penetrate into the transcendent being and get closer to Tao. The influence of conceptual Taoist and Buddhist ideas and postulates covered in the treatise ʺBook of the Yellow Courtʺ on the early medieval Chinese poetry, is demonstrated, which consists, firstly, in the importance of the concept of emptiness for the self-improvement of a Taoist adept and establishing a connection between the individual and the Universe; secondly, in understanding the poet's being and his creative state in a special transcendental state on the verge of being and non-being, which meets the aspirations of the Taoist adept to see his own inner world as if from the outside; thirdly, in the possibility of drawing a parallel between the human world and the macrocosm as a whole; fourthly, in the symbolism of wanderings seen in poetry as an integral part of the Taoist concept of transcendental travel through the human "internal landscape".