![]() ![]() The interpretation of Chinese gymnastics will be set forth within the paradigm of change which shaped Chinese vision of cosmos. By reading of Warring States (Zhan guo) and Han dynasty writings, as well as the the oldest excavated visual representation of gymnastics in China "Daoyin chart" (Daoyintu), in this exposure analysis will be on the understanding of gymnastics in the early Chinese culture. Gymnastics, however, is the important medium of harmonizing man with heaven (tian) and earth (di). considered to be just a body exercise but also a form of cultivating the vital spirit, qi. Gymnastics in Chinese tradition, therefore, was never. Literally translated, daoyin xingqi means "guiding, pulling and moving qi" i.e. It is based on body movemements which imitate the movements of animals. Read moreĬhinese gymnastics, daoyin xingqi, practised daily by millions of Chinese people, originates from ancient China and is rooted in shamanistic ritual dances. I will discuss a wide range of Qur'┐nic incidences and propose a new framework for understanding them. 3 This article aims to identify the communicative function of the Qur' ┐nic repetitions and show how they operate to fulfil this function. It is with the communicative role of repetition that I am concerned in this article. It occurs as a persistent technique in both Makkan and Mad ┘nan s┴rahs, and it works throughout the text to serve a wide variety of functions, which include the esthetic, cohesive, rhetorical, ritual and communicative functions. 2 In fact, repetition is so pervasive in the Qur' ┐n that it cannot be ignored in any serious attempt to analyze the use of language in the Qur' ┐nic text. On the other hand, those who set out to defend the text did so on the grounds that repeated topics in the Qur' ┐n are not repetitive in the sense that they repeat exactly the same information in each occurrence, but vary in what they say about the same topic each time it occurs. have severely criticised the language of the text on that grounds. Those who thought that the Qur' ┐n contained too many unnecessary repetitions. 1 This is also the case with the Qur'┐nic text where repetition has always been a controversial topic. In her introductory article to a book on repetition in literature and linguistics, Jean Aitchison makes the point that "No one is quite sure whether repetition is good or bad, either in literature or in linguistics". ![]()
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