The Concept Of Entertainment Literature At Wei, Jin And South Dynasties

The ancient Chinese paid much attention to the education functions of literature, there are many research on education function, few of entertainment features. This thesis studied on The concept of entertainment literature, basic on the Wei,Jin and Southern Dynasties phenomenon of the literary entertainment, focusing on investigating the concept of delight literature, as the a complement to the education functions of literature, and point out that entertainment is also one of the literature functions.At Wei and Jin Dynasties, the literati and literature changed the role in the social life. Both the Palace Banquet, or personal entertainment, or literary gatherings, put the literary as a entertainment. Literary authors participate in these activities, decent to have sentiment, competitive to have fun. Literary entertainment situation has been a common phenomenon in the society. Literary entertainment creation brought the new change of literature content and form, also brought the emergence of literature entertainment concept.The concept of entertainment literary was set up for the literature entertainment. It can be divided into two areas:one is for " Leisure ", which is for oneself entertainment; the other was for " Erotic " and " Hypocrites ",which is a theory for form game. The former fragmented appeared in the authors' writings, performance as the literati's conscious of their entertainment purposes in literature creating, and it's closely related with the traditional "Emotion view". And the latter was closely related to the development of Southern form literary and the emergence of "Gong Ti" literature,which positive affirmed the literature's entertainment function, showing a completely different with the traditional theory of the literary. The concept of entertainment literary is different from the traditional literature theory,it affirm with the entertainment function of literature, and ignore the education function,there for, the concept of entertainment literary is be criticized by the traditional literary criticism. But Liu Xie found different situation in criticism entertainment literary "Wei Wen Er Zao Qing",he found there were many shortcomings of entertainment literary, such as inanition of content, burdensome modify, but the entertainment literary brought the development of literature form, and learn the Favorable factors for the development of literature from literary entertainment.Although the concept of literary entertainment is different from the traditional Poetry theory, its emphasis on individual, attaching importance to the emotion, discussion of form, also inspire the literature of future,it develop the form of theory, and start up the popular literature of the later Development.