"Xiang" And Chinese Literary Theory Production

The paper puts forwards "images" as the meta-category of the Chinese literary theory."Images Abstracting" and Chinese characters are the unique and living symbols of the Chinese literature.In the context of "Harmony between Man and Nature",it is embodied with the reasons of objects and the nature of human beings,and it is as the important field of combination of the material world and the spiritual world.The category of "image" has its strong vitality and creativity in the different periods of literary practice,the related concepts,registers,principles and prepositions to "images"have been produced with the originality and localization,which is the response of"images" to the different artistic issues,and the significant contents of constructing and presenting ethnic literary quality as well."Images Abstracting" laid foundation for the Chinese cultural tradition of "Image’s Worship",and it is the symbol of maturity of Chinese image thinking.The creative principle of "Images Abstracting from Viewing" in Book of Changes formed the expressing mode of "Images Indicating Images" and "Images as the Signs of Meanings",to enlighten the exploration of "Images Probing Images Outside" and "Decoding the Meanings from Images".The Chinese characters are really based on "Images",which create the various types of forms of Chinese literature with its profusion of perceptual features through facing life,consolidating life,enlightening life and reflecting life.The popularity,universality and continuity have practiced and reinforced the cultural spirit of "Image’s Worship"."Images Abstracting" and Chinese character have the great impact upon the structure and creation of Chinese literary theories."Art of Images" just like "Images Abstracting" is as the deeply rooted concept of Chinese literary theories."Images Abstracting" gave the motion of "Art of Images"creation,while "Art of Images" reflects the cultural principle of "Images Abstracting".Chinese characters are the carrier of Chinese culture,hence,as the creating tool of Chinese characters,Chinese characters are the formation and practice of "Art of Images".The practice of "Art of Images" in the different periods gave birth to the series of concepts and categories related to "images" as the word-root,which were the theoretical conclusion of the artistic practice in a certain period and the historical extension and creation in times to the category of "Images".Those concepts are the links of the past and the future with the differences,which are the presence of Chinese literary life style.The introduction combs the gain and loss of "Images" category research and advances the theme of knowledge creation about "images" and Chinese literary theories,on the basis of the development of Chinese literary theories,especially the aphasia in the process and the modern value of Chinese literary theories.The first chapter suggests the "Images" as the foundation of the Chinese theories and the main thread of the Chinese theory construction.Meanwhile the exploration of"Images" is stressed on the word’s paraphrasing,documentary as circumstantial evidence and some inventions."Images abstracting",Chinese characters and Chinese literature are the concrete implementation of the literary theories.They presents the significant vitality and creation in practice,they indicate the direction of the research of "Images" and its categories,and they are the important methods of innovation Chinese literary theory’s knowledge creation and construction of national literary theory system.The second chapter is centered on the knowledge construction of "Images",and with the aid of "Images Abstracting" and Chinese character’s cultural principle,the three symbolic subcategories,namely,"Connotation of Images","Images developing"and "context",are studied,to discover the category of "Images" with the function of imitation and creation,aesthetic presentation and life experience.Chapter three based on the knowledge creation of "Images" puts forward "Images ing from Viewing","Perception Creating Images" and "Taste Dissolving Images" as the three basic approaches to the knowledge creation of "Images" category.It constructs the modes of knowledge creation,namely,experience,integration and consistency,with the observation,perception and taste as the core,to form the expressing mode of "Images Indicating Images" and "Images as the Signs of Meanings",in order to create the aesthetic place for "Images Probing Images Outside" and"Decoding the Meanings from Images".The above reflects the subjectivity of knowledge creation of Chinese literary theories,dialectical theory of construction and the feature of intertextuality of concept creating.The fourth chapter presents the historical extension of the primitive thinking about the Chinese image as the center."Images abstracting" is the symbol of maturity of Chinese image thinking,and the Chinese characters are the practice and development of the Chinese image thinking."Images abstracting" and the Chinese characters as the foundation present the semiotics,symbols,creation and thinking character of the Chinese image thinking.The Chinese image thinking is very closely related to the national cultural knowledge creation and its configuration,while there are relations and differences between image thinking and concept thinking.The last part is the conclusion,which probes into "Images" and knowledge innovation of Chinese literary theories,and puts forward that the fission of the Chinese culture in modern times formed the new context for the image category.There is the new reference from the experience of Chinese literary theory’s knowledge production in the 20th century.Therefore,the platform of knowledge production of Chinese originality has its new continuation."Images" as life symbol is the important presentation of the national culture and the important carrier of the traditional thoughts.Anyway,it has its rigorous life and creation as the important contents of the Chinese literary theory construction.