Xuán yán shī (English: profound poetry)

Japanese: 玄言詩 - げんげんし（英語表記）xuán yán shī

This refers to poetry that was popular from the end of the Western Jin Dynasty to the beginning of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the early 4th century, and is mainly based on Laozi and Zhuangzi ideology. The Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed by civil war and the Five Barbarians and Sixteen Kingdoms Rebellion, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was established by moving south. Many intellectuals were detached from the turbulent reality, preferring clear talk (also called profound speech), and were immersed in the Laozi and Zhuangzi ideology, and their poetry was also enthusiastic about expressing nihilism in a thousand poems. In his Preface to the Poems, Zhong Yuan criticized them, saying that "the logic is merely words, and there is little flavor in them." Poets include Guo Pu, Yuan Hong, and Sun Zhuo, but Guo Pu is unique and his Poems of Visiting Immortals are excellent.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

4世紀前半の西晋末から東晋初に盛行した老荘思想を主内容とする詩をいう。西晋は内乱と五胡十六国の乱のため滅亡し，南渡して東晋を建てた。知識人の多くは動乱の現実より離脱して，清談(玄言ともいう)を好み，老荘思想に沈溺し，その詩文も千編一律の虚無主義の表現に熱心であった。鍾嶸（しようこう）は《詩品序》において〈理其の辞に過ぎ淡として味わい寡（すくな）し〉と批判した。詩人に郭璞（かくはく），袁宏（えんこう），孫綽（そんしやく）らがいるが，郭璞は異色で，《游仙詩》はすぐれる。

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