On Musical Beauty of Textual Rhythm of A Legend of the Scholars’ Circle

"The musical beauty connoted in various chapters and sections of A Legend of Scholars’ Circle is a breakthrough in the creation of classical novels in China. This paper has made an interpretation of this from three perspectives. Firstly, various chapters of the book are relatively independent and can be grouped into different musical movements. Second- ly, the alternation of repeated narration and the variant one has set the special“partita”. Thirdly, scholars with different“tim- bre” whose fate are interwoven and mutually connected have constructed a three-dimensional mobile space. Their coordinate points in this space have revealed the differences of their moral characters and cultivation. Generally, the textual rhythm of this book is characterized by the profound musical beauty."