On Wen Yi-duo's Cultural Interpretation Criticism

Cultural Interpretation criticism is a literary research and criticism of the method,which arise out of the cultural anthropology.Its basic features is to "restore",which means to reveal the "original ecology of Living" that the history have been.It "restore" the history,culture and social life scene through archaeological,field trips,semantic Dynasty,deciphering the classics series methods,as much as possible.By combining the positivism method of the Qing Dynasty's down-to-earth learning with the research methods of western Anthroculturalism,Social Science,Folklore,Wen Yi-duo formed his unique cultural interpretation criticism method in the first quarter of the 20th century.Wen Yi-duo's research method is "on the basis of cross-cultural interpretation".And it is a modem sense of academic research methods.Wen Yi-duo's academic study involve almost all the Chinese classics of Paleozoic time.He described knowledge of ancient Chinese literature in the right perspective by taking substantial use of mythology,folklore,ethnology,archeology,aesthetics and psychology.He took "The Book of Songs","Songs of the South",myths and legends in his study, found clues hidden in the cohesion literature,and tried to restore the world,life,religion and folklore at that time.Wen Yi-duo is the first scholar to use the method of comprehensive study such as myths, folklore and cultural anthropology.He draw a lot of thoughtful conclusion after he absorbed the Western scientific theories.And he laid a classical Chinese cultural studies at the pioneering status of the field.Wen Yi-duo studied the "Book of Songs" and "Songs of the South" by using cultural interpretation criticism.He not only reveals the true face of ancient people's lives,but also reveals the thinking of ancient Chinese poetry features,as well as the resulting aesthetic image.This paper has seven chapters.The first chapter focuses on the base of cultural explanation criticism,which is creative application of scholium interpretation way.The second,third and fourth chapters mainly discuss Chinese poetic thinking:symbolic,emotional and imaginary.It reveals original totem sorcery and original research under Wen Yi-duo's cultural interpretation criticism.The fifth chapter focuses on the myth of study.The six chapter focuses on a strong sense of original human's life,which embodied in the livelihood practices and poetry art.The seventh chapter focuses on Wen Yi-duo's expression of academic research,which continues the traditional way of Chinese poetic criticism. Poetic criticism expresses the inner feeling and subjective impression of the critic through emotional description and imageries with symbolic and metaphorical language under the guidance of poetic thinking. Wen Yi-duo put the classical literature on the whole cultural background,explain survival condition and cultural psychology of huminid from various perspectives,and reveals the true thought of ancient literature.He got through the obstacles between original and civilization by using his cultural Interpretation criticism.He set up a bridge between logical and emotional thinking, profoundly revealed the psychological characteristics of Chinese ancient culture,including strong awareness of life and strong sense of clan kinship in the living customs and poetry art.The main thesis of this paper is to explain the characteristics of Wen Yi-duo's cultural Interpretation criticism and to reflect the conscious awareness of history,by analysing the research results of "The Book of Songs","Songs of the South" and the ancient Chinese myth.