著者

朱 捷 ZHU jie

出版者

京都

雑誌

総合文化研究所紀要 = Bulletin of Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts (ISSN:09100105)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, pp.93-108, 2012-03-30

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Nothing expresses the essence and thinking of classical Chinese culture and literature better than the palindrome, although palindromes themselves are not highly ranked. Exhibiting the tendency of classical Chinese literature to present everything in dyads, and to highly value the never-ending cycle between two poles, palindromes are also recognized in the iconography of the Book of Changes (I Ching, 易経), in which the symbols of the 64 hexagrams are arranged as iconographic palindromes. It might be said that these 64 hexagrams represent the "Mandala" of Chinese cosmology. This paper examines and discusses the hypothesis that if it is true that a palindrome is hidden in this Mandala, then not only Chinese cosmology, but Chinese literature in its entirety as a cultural concept is characterized by the phenomenon of the palindrome.