A Comparison Of Wen Xin Diao Long And Shi Pin

Wei-Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties are of the epoch-making significance in the history of literature theory in our country. The ontological consciousness of literature was awakening, and the literature began to regress to its existence. With this historical return to the literature original position, the literature creation and the literary theoretical construction started to march into the developing track which imputed them obtain coordinated development. The prosperity of literature creation not only expedited the literary theoretical construction, but also promoted it gradually move towards maturity. On the other hand, the establishment of literary theoretical skeleton and its maturity afforded many useful instructions to the literature creation from the scientific theory or principle. This article concentrates on the study which based on the comparison of Wen xin diao long and Shi Pin, and it carries on the concrete comparison through four aspects, such as the ontology of literature, the literature creation, discussion about aesthetic and criticism of poem. Seen from the whole tendency of current academic development, it will bring great significance to the current literature creation and the literary theoretical construction as well as the inheriting to our national outstanding culture, if we can successfully excavate and thoroughly inherit the essence of our classic ancient literature theory.This article carries on the concrete analysis elaboration from following four chapters.The first chapter is based on the comparison of the ontology of literature, which discusses the literature essence through the ontology of literature during Wei-Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is a very important period in the history of Chinese ancient literature, which is known as "Self-consciousness". The pure literature started to be separated from the traditional literature and obtained its independent status during Wei-Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties. It mainly manifested in two aspects, the first one is that the determination of the essence of the literature creation was more reasonable and scientific. The second one is that the classification among all kinds of literary styles was gradually careful and scientific. Therefore, this part of contents carry on the elaboration from two aspects: The first one is the explanation about "article", which was regarded by Liu Xie and Zhong Rong. Since Wen xin diao long and Shi pin had carried on either gathering or scattered elaboration on this question, the author attempts to carry on his discussion through the comparison between Liu Xie and Zhong Rong's concepts about "article" as well as their concepts about the function of "article". The second one is based on the poem style, which discussed by Liu Xie and Zhong Rong. As we all known, Shi pin obtains special comments on the five-characters-per line poem, while Wen xin diao long is known as "The system is huge moreover considers completely", which contains many elaboration about kinds of literature styles, and it obviously contains many theoretical achievements about the style of poem.The second chapter is mainly about the comparison which based on the literature creation. This chapter of content is divided into two parts. First, the relationship between the author and the subjects during the process of the literature creation. The author and the subjects are of two mainly components and of the basic condition in the literature creation. The literature creation is the display of subjects which seen from the interactions between the authors' emotion and their activities. It was discussed thoroughly in Spirit Formed in one's mind Limitless to hover, Scenery and Color as well as The preface of Shi pin. Second, the literature creation process. This part carries on the concrete elaboration to the poem creation through the two-dimensional view between the thinking in images and the image thought, which was widely discussed in Wen xin diao long and Shi pin .The third chapter is the comparison of aesthetics. This part elaborates from the aesthetic judgments, the first section concentrates on the historical culture and environments which promoted Liu Xie and Zhong Rong obtained their aesthetic thoughts. The turbulence of political situation during Wei-Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties had broken the people's value patterns completely. The metaphysics was prosperous during the time and it took the ontology of universe as the basic thesis. The metaphysics had raised people's philosophy thought levels, and various metaphysics propositions had also caused the revolution of thinking methods. At the same time, the Confucianism concepts about The poem and the transformation of Buddhism concepts into Chinese poem creation brought either directly or indirectly influence to the aesthetics and the view of aesthetic contemplation. The second section affords brief appraises and elaborates the construction about the natural and harmonious aesthetic thoughts which proposed in Wen xin diao long and Shi pin.The fourth chapter is about Liu Xie and Zhong Rong's comments on literature works. The first section elaborates the judgment standards on poem, such as The taste and the poem beautiful which held by Liu Xie and Zhong Rong. The second section elaborates the art criticism methods proposed by Wen xin diao long and Shi pin. The third section embarks detailed analysis from the concrete works, which mentioned in Wen xin diao long and Poem, and then enumerates them according to Poetry and The Poetry of Chu. We will discover the slight differences of literary ideas between Liu Xie and Zhong Rong through the comments given by them to these poems.