Historic Opportunities Of Abrupt Change And Gradual Change-Reflection On "Wei-Jin Literary Consciousness"

As a literary theory,"literary self-consciousness"is related to two theoretical levels, which contains'literary self-consciousness" and " the times of literary self-consciousness". Of these two levels, the first one aims to define the phenomenon of literary self-consciousness through the understanding of the concept of literature and the last one aims to make the delineation of the specific times from the view of literary history. The two belong to theory of literary history and theory of literature separately. From the perspective of literary theory "literary consciousness" is related to the definition of literariness and literature. In the other hand, from the perspective of the history of literature, "literary consciousness" is related to the understanding of the whole history of literature.From the level of literary theory, "literary consciousness" means some standards of the consciousness. Such as the opinion of Wei can be regarded as the time of "Literary consciousness" which was drew by Japanese Sinologist SUZUKI TORAO Huxiong, it considers the literature as belles-lettres. After that Lu Xun point out that the era of Cao Pi can be regarded as the time of "Literary consciousness". He considered the literature from the perspective of drugs, alcohol and the main psychological, which have given the literature a more accurate definition. To the'50s and'60s, Wang Yao considered the formation of the Wei-Jin literary style because of the social and political changes. And in the 80's, Li Zehou considered the awakening of man as the reason of "Literary consciousness", which was more profound and detailed exposition.For understanding the literature we will have to construct a variety of perspectives, on this basis, the standards of the "literary consciousness" should be integrated. Literature as a part of history and culture its have many attributes including the times and integrity is the key. Each period has its own specific understanding of "literature" and "literature". The flowing characteristics given literature with the greatest historical reality. In addition, the literature exists as a whole activities, has even broader space out the text, the writers, the cultural context and readers are all important parts of the literature activities, Accordingly understanding of the "literary consciousness" should also be conscious of more dimensions.From the level of literary history, by the impact of the history of literature, "literary consciousness" updated its theoretical connotation continually. The theory of "literary consciousness" which was drawn by Lu Xun is a concept of literary history which contained evaluation for specific periods of literature firstly. Historical and critical as two attributes of the "literary consciousness" determines its influence on the writing of literary history. From the perspective of literary history, the concept of "literary consciousness" is effective for understanding the Wei-Jin's literature.But on the other hand, as a framework for writing literary history, "literary consciousness" has its limitations too. To describe the development of literary history with standards on consciousness, some literary documents may be chosen or thrown away directly and these are all worthy of reflection.