INDIAN & CHINESE CULTURES.
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Writing forms, religion in literature, poetry & language.
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Hindu and Chinese Writing Forms: Sanskrit and Ideograph
Sanskrit, an archaic Hindu language, is the oldest of the Indo-European tongues, and therefore is related to English and Latin. The word, Sanskrit, means 'perfected'. It is the language of the religion, Hinduism, and classical Indian literature. The language is characterized by verbs in active, middle, and passive tenses, as well as very long compounded adjectives. For example, "the put-all-the-pie-he-could-eat-in-his-stomach man". When used in poetry Sanskrit does not have any use of parallelism (as in Jewish literature), or rhymes (as in English literature.) Instead it uses long and short syllables arranged metrically. The language is now considered dead except for religious and scholarly use. It has been replaced by
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perfected' It is the language of the in poetry Sanskrit does not have any use ofparallelism as and scholarlyuse It has been replaced by Arabic Because of Ancient Chinese is far from archaic It now interactionwith outside sources The Chinese language is developed of all languages A singlesyllable conveys an entire canmean honor honorable honorably or to be definition Written Chinese developed out of the one an actualdrawing of the signified the complexity of the thought involved This compactness language of sound that we have seen delightful in the modes of music whatever is sound is also referred to by another Hindu who says the world religions It is Shiva the Destroyer Vishnu thePreserver and Shakti the Divine Mother Veda which are chants and songs The Yajur Veda in ritualistic sacrifice the rules forwhich are all a manual for priests onritual the use of all types B C about the same time that Taoism wasfounded by feminine yielding passive The Confucianist wanted to get the job tao and to leave artifice and conformity be found in three books Five Kings Four of Changes a book of history a book of poetry thought He ignores the future practice of that venerable antiquity Indian literature that wasfull of life color and find subtle differences in theme that they can slowly attain divine statusthrough a the bitter cold Each moment by two return In these things there streets But for thirteen years it was so I lived full of verve and life Ithas a corruption Confucius called for amovement to the past he wanted Hindu slowly move himself up through sound of the humanvoice The Chinese on William The Story of Civilization New York Harper Brothers John D Education New York Ballantine Books Ibid Quakenbos of the Indo-European tongues and therefore well as very long compoundedadjectives For example short syllables arranged metrically The begun to write poetry down extent of isolationism in Chinese foreign policy Veryfew new words spawned a simplisticliterature simplistic in form not thought specific contexts ofthe arrangement of those words For in a sentence and its relationship which inturn signified the thought or of a man in his boat at sea ideographs define Chinese as a Whereas the Hindus celebrated theword as music One that let the happy and be equal to the gods Religion in Literature Brahman Brahman manifests himself in the form of broken up into fourparts The Rig Veda otherwise known as of secret talismans that would ward off evil and down into four parts The and the Upanishads werephilosophical speculations about millionbelievers as opposed to the million believers in are the Yin and theYang Confucianism is yang hundred generations the Taoists to lead a sense ofjustice and order and where the concern was books Yih King Shoo King She King Le passage Confucius nowhere encourages men trodden paths He sought to reclaim from Confucius set the standards for Chinese literature Simple the differences betweenIndian and Chinese poetry when they are ofRama written by Valmiki Rama is the seventh incarnation of too many to be told Thirst hunger burning scorpions crawl Compare this with a passage by life like a dropped leaf have returned For one must return To fulfill one's and timid The Chinese were trying to tone down agovernment in theimagination and that Man should assert himself in this way the Hindus thrived on their vocal tradition developed a language of sight Incomplete Education New York Ballantine Books Quakenbos John D The New York Simon and Schuster Ibid Quakenbos Ibid Ibid Hindu and Chinese Writing Forms Sanskrit religion Hinduism and classical Indian literature The language in Jewish literature or rhymes the even tempo ofreciting Sanskit poetry the Hindus clung to manifests itself inModern Chinese The language has changed little in very simple in form it ismonosyllabic thought as opposed to a syllable being only acomponent honorable depending on where itis located in the sentence Word syllable-one thought format Chinese words itself For example a fisherman and efficiency of language defines the of Sanskrit Chinese poems were asmuch a exquisite in the sweet art of Hewho sings and hears the epic poem a very colorfulreligion with much The religious texts of Hinduismare a set of are prayers and theArtharva Veda are incantations set aside in the Vedas Each and incantations These gave the rules for sacrifice TheAranyaka of weapons information about the arts and astrological insights Confucianism a man named Confucius Taoism and Confucianism work togetherin a done keep the wheels greased make sure the in the dust Confucianism was conservatism at its extreme practice Shoo andBooks of the Philosophers The Five Kings a book of rites andan ancient history respectively Confucianism and exhausts the past His which he so blindingly admired Beyond vividness Iandian and Chinese Poetry A Comparison and tone through Englishtranslations The multitude of incarnations The passage is as on some deadly thing the heedless step may lies a deep meaning Yet when we would express For a long time I lusty vitality that is missing in the the nation to envelope itself in itself The Hindus had the castesystem through incarnation into higher the other hand withdrew into themselves anddelighted in the quite Our Oriental Heritage New York Simon and Schuster Quakenbos Illustrated History of Ancient Literature NewYork Harper Brothers Ibid Ibid Durant is related to English and Latin The word Sanskrit means the put-all-the-pie-he-could-eat-in-his-stomach man When used language is now considered dead except for religious It was a language ofsight not sound could be introduced into the language through Chinese is considered the least example the Chinese word sin to other words rather thaninflection or simply signifier The picture was often These ideographs'become more complex depending on language of sight as opposed tothe Indian scholar wrote Whatever is wise learn from the songs of Joyadeva This language of Hinduism and Confucianism Hinduism is the oldest of severalother gods The most prominent are the knowledge of the stanzas TheSama protect the wearerfrom harm They also took part first is themantras the second is the Brahmanas which is The Upanishads also contained informationabout the treatment of disease Hinduism It wasfounded in the sixth century practical masculine dominant active Taoism is yin Intuitive a perfectly balanced life in harmony with the for the welfare of the people His teachings can King and Spring and Autumn These are abook to take independent flights into the realms of original sin and folly but only by winning to the purer defined plain and stark This is in vivid contrast to not spoken or read in their ownlanguage we can Vishnu thePreserver The Hindus believe heat by day by night T'ao Chien a Chinese statesman The flying birds two Snared under the dust of nature The language of the Indian passage is sensual that was running away with new and creative ways Only in this way could a as a means of sensual experience They delighted in the as India developed a language ofsound BibliographyDurant Illustrated History of Ancient Literature Oriental and Classical Durant Judy Jones and William Wilson An Incomplete and Ideograph Sanskrit an archaic Hindu language is the oldest is characterized by verbs inactive middle and passive tenses as as in Englishliterature Instead it uses long and their sense of oral traditionlong after they had hundreds of years This is due to the This simplicity of language has of words that compose thoughts within the contexts become dependent on the positionof a word began as pictures representing a single syllable could berepresented by a picture development ofancient Chinese literature The beauty to look at as to read love whatever is graceful in the strains of poetry all continually has attained to the highestenjoyment and will finally pageantry Hinduism preaches that there is a divinebeing named books called the Vedas The Vedas is and spells The Hindus believed in allsorts of the Vedas is broken were texts for hermit saints today is a religion that boasts cosmic sort of synergy The symbols for these system held up for another few Confuciuswanted a perfect government where the rulers were guided by is broken down into five is summed up nicely in the following motto was not Go up but Walk the the old landmarks he could not even point the way Though it is very difficult to fully grasp first is a passage from the Ramayana or Adventures follows The forest life has fears and woes fall Where serpents with their venomed fangs and poisonous it words suddenly fail us What folly to spend one's have lived in a cage Now I second where the language issimple thoughtful a much different concern They believed forms and eventually reach thespiritual goal In circumspect of their ideographs In summation China Jones Judy and William Wilson An William Durant The Story of Civilization Our Oriental Heritage perfected' It is the language of the in poetry Sanskrit does not have any use ofparallelism as and scholarlyuse It has been replaced by Arabic Because of Ancient Chinese is far from archaic It now interactionwith outside sources The Chinese language is developed of all languages A singlesyllable conveys an entire canmean honor honorable honorably or to be definition Written Chinese developed out of the one an actualdrawing of the signified the complexity of the thought involved This compactness language of sound that we have seen delightful in the modes of music whatever is sound is also referred to by another Hindu who says the world religions It is Shiva the Destroyer Vishnu thePreserver and Shakti the Divine Mother Veda which are chants and songs The Yajur Veda in ritualistic sacrifice the rules forwhich are all a manual for priests onritual the use of all types B C about the same time that Taoism wasfounded by feminine yielding passive The Confucianist wanted to get the job tao and to leave artifice and conformity be found in three books Five Kings Four of Changes a book of history a book of poetry thought He ignores the future practice of that venerable antiquity Indian literature that wasfull of life color and find subtle differences in theme that they can slowly attain divine statusthrough a the bitter cold Each moment by two return In these things there streets But for thirteen years it was so I lived full of verve and life Ithas a corruption Confucius called for amovement to the past he wanted Hindu slowly move himself up through sound of the humanvoice The Chinese on William The Story of Civilization New York Harper Brothers John D Education New York Ballantine Books Ibid Quakenbos of the Indo-European tongues and therefore well as very long compoundedadjectives For example short syllables arranged metrically The begun to write poetry down extent of isolationism in Chinese foreign policy Veryfew new words spawned a simplisticliterature simplistic in form not thought specific contexts ofthe arrangement of those words For in a sentence and its relationship which inturn signified the thought or of a man in his boat at sea ideographs define Chinese as a Whereas the Hindus celebrated theword as music One that let the happy and be equal to the gods Religion in Literature Brahman Brahman manifests himself in the form of broken up into fourparts The Rig Veda otherwise known as of secret talismans that would ward off evil and down into four parts The and the Upanishads werephilosophical speculations about millionbelievers as opposed to the million believers in are the Yin and theYang Confucianism is yang hundred generations the Taoists to lead a sense ofjustice and order and where the concern was books Yih King Shoo King She King Le passage Confucius nowhere encourages men trodden paths He sought to reclaim from Confucius set the standards for Chinese literature Simple the differences betweenIndian and Chinese poetry when they are ofRama written by Valmiki Rama is the seventh incarnation of too many to be told Thirst hunger burning scorpions crawl Compare this with a passage by life like a dropped leaf have returned For one must return To fulfill one's and timid The Chinese were trying to tone down agovernment in theimagination and that Man should assert himself in this way the Hindus thrived on their vocal tradition developed a language of sight Incomplete Education New York Ballantine Books Quakenbos John D The New York Simon and Schuster Ibid Quakenbos Ibid Ibid
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