Research On YANYU's Lyric Theory System

CangLangShiHua, a well-known lyric theory work which summarize the Chinese ancient lyrical characters from the aspects such as: character theory, creating theory, and criticizing theory and in the end forms a obvious system..This article consists of two parts: the first part and the second part. The first section of it analyses the theorical origin of CangLangShiHua .we get the necessity of Yan Yu's lyrical theory from the theory of Song dynasty. The second section of it discusses the system of CangLangShiHua's lyrics theory through the analysis of the aesthetic character theory, creating theory, criticizing theory and the spirit of the union of poetry and Zen(dhyana).The third section of it discusses the meaning and influence of the works in the history field. The second part verifies YanYu's lyrical theory through its comparison with Worthworth's in aspects like: emotion, ration and language.