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Tao Yuanming (Toenmei), l\4iUif,~~Jl, like Wordsworth, lived his life in a region which is beyond comedy and tragedy. He says at the end of the second of two poems on Moying House, {tf,§-, that "ploughing with might and main will never deceive us", :h*jj:/f~~)lk. If Burns had known this, his life would have been less tragic. But actually Tao Y Llan-ming had the gift that Burns desired, to see himself. : ;IT § . Jf iJf /F ff· * B fJl. ji1! fRJ Ji[- if.. 2f, Jit ~L Long ago I heard the in junctions of my elders, But stopped my ears, so disagreeable were they.
The humour of the Chinese people is not remarkably different from that of Europe. In early times of course it had the same coarseness, the same healthy earthiness and lack of intellectual sub tlety, the kind cruelty of nature and man. There are fools and pc Cfirzese H'lrllOUr 20 bl:lVeS, t1"~"e is i:1nocence and cunning; hypocrisy, humbug, wise folly, foolish wisdom are no different. Only occasionally we are not quite sure what the Chinese readers were laughing at. :: " • CHAPTER II The Chinese Classics In the whole of the Chinese Classics there (s nothing that could "bring a blush to the cheek ot any young female person".
In a word, humorous. Again, in the Chinese language nouns have no number or person or gender or case; verbs have no voice, no mode, no tense, no number, no person; "part of speech" itself has no meaning. That is to say, it is highly transcendental and Rexible, a kind of democratic language that comes from and lends itself to the comic spirit, which knows better than any other how difficult it is for one human being to communicate itself to another, and that it does so best in laughing at that difficulty.