Over the past two decades, researches on comparative Chinese-Western poetics have been carried out with two different approaches,one being classical vs. modern,and the other,Chinese vs. Western. In the process, various difficulties and puzzles in theory and practice have been encountered, such as how to look upon traditions, argu-ment regarding the original meanings,the genesis and interpretative modes of meanings, the circular explanation in the dialog between Chinese and Western poetics,the principle of the dialog,and the theo-retical basis for methodology, etc. Failure to solve such problems means impediment for further exploration in this realm. Hence the fo-cal point here is how to transform the hermeneutics of Chinese poet-ics from its classical form into modern form. In this respect, the ideas, methods and principles of modern Western hermeneutics can provide us with some inspiration.
The civilization of the Yellow River valley was developed on the basis of millet-farming agriculture. The society in this area began to break up and went to civilization at about 3500 B. C. From 3000B. C.to 2100B. C. of the Longshan Times,many walled towns or cities emerged and thus the dawn of ancient Chinese civilization came into being. The following Erlitou Culture may have been the culture of the Xia people during the Xia Dynasty. The Xia State became the largest one among states in the Yellow River valley after Shaokang's rejuvenation. The Shang and Zhou expanded their forces into the Yangtze River valley and the Yanshan Mountain and the Liaohe River valley. Once ancient Chinese civilization reached its prosperity, the central place of the Yellow River valley established.