Chinese Language, Poetry Creation and Philosophy Season 2
Learn Chinese language quickly and memorably through beautiful Chinese Poetry
Hello, everyone, welcome to my new course, “Chinese language, poetry
creation, philosophy season 2 ”! This sequence, by far the most
beautiful, in-depth course that I have designed among all my courses
published, will teach you Chinese language, poetry, and poetry
creation as well as the Chinese philosophical thoughts
influencing poetry creation. My six-course language sequence published in the past year, "college Mandarin Chinese Curriculum" is
ranked no.1 in student review and sales in the Chinese language category on paid online platforms. Poetry is the most beautiful, concise use of a language, and
the vocabulary of modern poetry is perfectly applicable for daily use.
Learning poetry and poetry creation will allow you to acquire a language
at its best and in a speedy, most impressive and memorable manner. For
each poem, I have made it into extremely beautiful video with pictures,
music and my own recitation, which brings into resonance the artistic
contagion of different mediums of art.
The course is divided into several sections, the first section are poems whose creation are inspired by painting: the poem of Buddhist enlightenment inspired by the paintings in the Mogao Caves; the wasted feminine youth and beauty inspired by the radically aestheticized photography of lotus flowers; Buddhist and Taoist equanimity inspired by the aesthetics of Chinese literati painting and Buddhist painting; Buddhist renunciation inspired by the oil painting of the sun of the glacial age; the dream of transmigration conveyed in black-and-white photos of my disappeared hometown in a past time and of the River of Ganges. The second section of the course will examine comparative religion of the East and the West, and their unexpected affinity beneath apparent difference, and an unconventional understanding of sacramental ritual. The third section will examine the semiotics of photography as exile, mourning and lyrical time. The fourth section will examine the Taoist collapse of opposition implied in the emblem of the raven.
For learning each poem, I will give three lectures. In the first lecture, I will lead you to learn the language in the poem. I will provide vocabulary list and teach you these vocabularies perfectly applicable to daily use and how to use them on daily occasion, I will explain to you the poem's literal meaning, and lead you to recite them. In the second lecture, I will explain in English the poetic meaning, philosophical thoughts and creative process behind each poem. In the third lecture, I will give you the musical video of the poem with my recitation and pictures (and subtitles of both Chinese and English version of the poem) to further impinge on you the aesthetic appreciation and understanding of the poem, and the memorability of the beautiful language. At the end of each section. I will give you some creative writing practice that allows you to use your learned language and creative process of making a poem. After learning the course, you will feel your Chinese language soar with your aesthetic delight in the ecstatic poetic flight. I am a professor of Chinese for 16 years at prestigious American universities. All the poems are reserved for my own future publication in books, they are copyright-protected, so please don’t use them for your own authorship.
Hong Zeng
Introduction of the course
1. 观画 text practice part 1
1. 观画 text practice part 2
Watch Painting poetry analysis
1. 观画 Watch painting 1
2. 莫高石窟text practice
2. 莫高石窟text practice part 2
2. Mogao Cave Poetry Analysis
2. 莫高石窟 Mogao Caves 1
3. 荷text practice
3. 荷poetry analysis.pptx
3. 荷 Lotus 1
4. 轮回text practice 1
4. 轮回 text practice part 2
4. Transmigration Poetry Analysis
4. 轮回 Transmigration 1
5. 东方和西方The East and the West text practice part 1
5. 东方和西方The East and the West text practice part 2
5. The East and the West Poetry Analysis
5. 东方和西方The East and the West 1
6. 圣餐仪式 text practice edited
6. Sacramental Ritual poetry analysis
6. 圣餐仪式 Sacramental Ritual 1
7. 告别 Farewell text practice
7. Farewell poetry analysis
7. 告别 Farewell 1
8. 临界 Critical Region text practice
8. Critical Region poetry analysis
8. 临界Critical Region 1
9. 照片photo text practice
9. Photograph poetry analysis
9. 照片Photograph
10. 乌鸦 The Raven text practice part 1
10. 乌鸦 The Raven text practice part 2
10. The Raven poetry analysis
11. 乌鸦 The raven 1