Asian Culture and Art Studies (Motaleat-e Farhang va Honare Asiya)

A comparative Study of the meeting of Shams and Rumi with the meeting of Chinese Boya and Zhong Ziqi based on the theory of Jung's archetypes

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Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Tahmineh Bazdar

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

10.30465/acas.2025.52060.1187
Abstract
Literature has always provided a platform for understanding various intellectual, cultural, and social aspects of civilizations and the underlying layers of thought in different nations. Comparative literature is an effective tool to compare and contrast literary works, such as stories, epic works, poems, etc. from different nations. Investigating Persian and Chinese literary works leads us to works that, despite some structural differences, bear many similarities, especially in their lower layers. The stories of the meetings between Shams and Rumi and between Boya and Zhong Ziqi are an example. In this research, with an analytical-comparative method, while comparing the story of the meeting between Shams and Rumi and Boya and Zhong Ziqi based on Jung's archetypal theory, we have investigated the similarities and differences of these two stories in Iranian and Chinese cultures based on Sufi thought and Eastern wisdom. And in the light of such an approach, why and how the beginning, continuation and end of these two stories have been analyzed. The research shows that both stories are very similar in terms of the framework or the main line, like the archetype of the wise old man and the archetype of death and rebirth. but at the end of the two stories, after the separation of two lovers or two close friend different mystical foundations of these Two stories are considered as their basic distinguishing components.

Keywords

Boya, comparative literature, Jung'
s archetypal theory, Rumi, Shams, Zhong Ziqi

Subjects

Asian Culture and Art Studies (Motaleat-e Farhang va Honare Asiya)

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Available Online from 11 June 2025

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