OuYang-xiu's Opinion Of Literature

As the outstanding leader of the Northern Song Dynasty' s literature innovation movement ,OuYang-xiu himself not only had prominent writing achievements in such many aspects as the poem , gentle , ci ,etc. but also had proposed a series of literature theory Which had profound affects to the later generation, moreover he had trained large quantities of outstanding talented people for the Northern Song Dynasty literary arena, therefore he founded a generation of literary style most early in the Song Dynasty history of literature. For OuYang-xiu' s contribution to the Management of the literary arena and his writing achievements , as if ancient people and modern people have not different word, howover the descendant' s attitude toward some important literature theories of his are quite disagree, this text has carried on the analysis and summary in many aspects to Ouyang-xiu's opinion of literature, attempt to get a system appraisal .The full text includes four following parts mainly:First part: Literature and Tao' s relation In the Northern Song Dynasty initial period, the formalism and the doctrine of "back to the ancients" were both very serious, the formalism valued literature more than Tao , the doctrine of "back to the ancients" valued Tao more than literature, they both enormously influenced literature s healthy development, therefore OuYang-xiu proposed a new view: First, OuYang-xiu entrusted with a new connotation to Tao- he related Tao with "everything"; Then OuYang_xiu advocated that Tao should get up the leading role to the literature, opposed the literature is separated from the Tao; Finally OuYang-Xiu thought that the literature have the relatively independent nature, cannot replace the literature with Tao, this new view payed equal attention to them , so it had laid the way for literature innovation movement' s victory of the Northern Song Dynasty.Second part: The article should be written naturally OuYang-xiu' s attitude toward the article style is that the article should be written naturally, it is also his experience from his long time writing life, therefore in the discussion of article writing OuYang-xiu mentioned it many times, but the "naturally" emphasized by OuYang-xiu was that: Thearticle should be smooth and easy, opposed crab and difficult; The article should be plain and profound , opposed flashy but lacking substance; The article should be richly original create, opposed copy and imitation . In order to enable the article to achieve the goal, OuYang-xiu emphasized that the author should be learned, difficult idea, earnest revision. Also just because OuYang-xiu proposed the article should be written naturally, therefore he advocates the article style should be diversification.Third part:The more adversity the writer has , the better his writing is In "Mei Shengyu Poetry anthology Foreword" , OuYang-xiu first explicitly proposed "the more destitute the writer , the better his work" in our country literature theory history . because he directly contacted the writer' s "poor" with the text' s "good" , disclosed the real life' s huge influence on the writer, explained the literature and the time' s close relation, contained profound and universal literature theory implication, therefore it always got literature theorists' attention, thus becomes a hot topic in the China literary criticism history.Fourth part: Thought of c i Regarding ci, OuYang-xiu hadn' t system theory, but his idea of ci, his esthetic interest of ci should have the trail to be seek. In the overall , OuYang-xiu had inherited the tradition, thought that ci mainly has the function view of"chats assists clear happy" and the romance view of "the life from has infatuated", but because his open-minded thought, the rough rugged life and official career experience caused him to accept the more different cultural level and esthetic interest' s gradual influence, this domain OuYang-xiu had still made various exploration.