The Missing Artistic Conception in Translating Chinese Classical Poems and Its Solutions

Tthe artistic conception of ancient Chinese poetry is one of the main difficulties in poetry translation, and it is getting a hot debating topic for translators.Pro.Xu was inspired by other translators' theory and concluded his own practicing experience.Hence the Three Beauties theory was proposed.The Three Beauties theory refers to "beauty of sense, beauty of sound and beauty of form."The artistic conception missing has become a usual phenomenon.In order to solve this problem, this paper introduces Xu Yuanchong's three beauties theory.Thus it can demonstrate the feasible solution of avoiding artistic concept missing under the frame of aesthetic view.With demonstrating "the beauty in three aspects", this paper quotes some examples to make it clear that how the transference of aesthetic nature goes. The Aesthetic Features of Artistic ConceptionKnowing about the features of artistic conception is an sufficient way for understanding the artistic conception.This section mainly introduces its artistic characteristics.This may help readers to realize the vital role that it plays in poetry. Dynamic And Static BeautyIn the field of philosophy, staticness and dynamicness are in contradiction.But in the poem, they Can be complementary and interchangeable.The staticness in the poem mirrors the calmness of the poet's mind and the dynamicness reflects his/her excitement.The combination or the change between staticness and dynamicness also reflects the poet's mental activity.In the aesthetic domain of poetry appreciation, these two terms underlie each other, blending in dialectic harmony.Professor Gu Zheng yang (2006:76) once said "The depiction of dynamic and static scenes is one way to create the artistic conception of poetry Through the construction of dynamic and static images, and the artistic conception, not only can a poet produce clear and vivid scenes, but he also succeeds in revealing rich and complicated emotions."It is unusual to see absolute staticness in a poem except landscape ones.The description of still images or emotions like homesickness and lovesickness etc. is staticness in a poem.In description of still scenery, poets often described outline of several images, instead of their specific features.In fact, the poets' truly implied thoughts were fully concealed by the apparent quiet scenery.The appreciation of such kind of poem is similar to appreciation of a painting in white and black.Under the superficial intonation lies profound beauty.Liu Zhongyuan's poem Fishing in Snow (《江雪》)is a good example:千山鸟飞绝，万径人踪灭。孤舟蓑立翁，独钓寒江雪。 This poem was written by Liu Zhongyuan when he was exiled to the southwest.It is considered a masterpiece of anchorite poem although it has only twenty words，but every word is concrete and makes an image.The first couplet begins with" a thousand mountains" and "ten thousand paths", which form a contrast not only with the bird and the footprint but also with the single boat and the lonely fisherman so that the solitude is accentuated．The snow provide a background which looks so cold and dreary that the cold-proof fisherman seems lonely and lofty，all the lonelier and loftier for he is fishing snow instead of fishing in snow.This old fisherman may be said to be the very picture of the lonely and high-hearted poet in exile.