| The natural aesthetic ideology, such as"from the meantime mouth","beauty without carving"initiated by Zhang Lei Poetic ideal, is a reflection of"natural inaction" concept in the Poetics advocated by the Taoist philosophy. Song's natural aesthetic thinking stressed the natural heart and the free expression of thoughts and feelings, in artistic creation, "insipid natural" style as a kind of ideal style had formed a kind of theoretical consciousness, which affected Zhang Lei Poetics ideals to embody such natural features like "indifferent simplicity, sincerely pure heart". These new concepts distributed and penetrated on all levels of Zhang Lei's poetic ideals, which had a profound impact in the Southern Song Dynasty poem thought and aesthetic ideas, and developed practically and theoretically.It is considered that Zhang Lei's natural thinking is not only the soul of poetic thinking, but also an important driving factor of China's Song Dynasty poems ideal transformed into"being indifferent to nature". Studying on Zhang Lei Poetics of natural ideology, we can find the clues of the Song Dynasty poem ideal development and the focus transfer, as well as Zhang Lei's Poetry emphasis. This paper intends to adopt the combination method of History retrospect, theory explanation, and practice directions, to excavate the content, features and effects of Zhang Lei's naturally thinking, and to deeply grasp Zhang Lei's poetic ideal from the aesthetic view.In the first part, this paper discusses the historical origins and theoretical basis of Zhang Lei's Poetic natural ideals. History retrospect not only can mark the process of natural thinking as philosophy turning into artistic nature, but also can find Zhang Lei's Poetics thinking is deeply influenced by philosophy and literary thinking of Song Dynasty, and the forming of his thinking is closely related to his personal experience.In the second part, this paper discusses Zhang Lei's poetics natural ideal theory. In the process of expositing Zhang Lei's theory of poetic ideals, the features can be reflected more obviously. He proposed that the poetry"from the meantime mouth"essentially was a natural revelation of poets'strong emotional, and the creative way of thinking brings a "natural" characteristics to his poetry works. To achieve natural poems, Zhang Lei attached great importance to emotion as the essence of art, ignored the use of specific skills, attributed everything to nature to some extent, and used the plain language as a vector to express the sincere and profound feelings. Zhang Lei's natural Poetic ideal endowed the "nature" with the significance of feeling-based theory which makes the thinking of Poetics have a unique style.In the third part, this paper discusses the image of Zhang Lei's natural poetics ideal. His thinking is specifically reflected in the creation of his poetry, where he used the natural simplicity of the language as a medium, to uphold good faith as guiding ideology, and created moving poetry works.In the fourth part, this paper discusses the impact and value of Zhang Lei's natural Poetics ideal. In view of historical value, Zhang Lei plays an important role in the convergence between North and South Song Dynasty Poetics thinking. Zhang Lei's "natural" poetic style, later praised by the other poets, influences China's Poetry aesthetic consciousness after the North Song Dynasty. From the view of contemporary significance, Zhang Lei's aesthetic viewpoint of frankness, nature, indifference and quietness, reflected the ancients'harmony aesthetic concept, and the respect for natural. Human beings should maintain the distance when they face the original ecological nature, and which is natural "naturalization". And in order coordinate human beings and nature in tantalization and then realize an aesthetic life, this distance should be also kept.This paper is to lay some useful basis for Chinese ancient poetry to inherit and carry forward natural insipid style and artistic traditions fundamentally, hopes to be able to explore and enrich Chinese Classical Poetic thoughts, and provides some suggestive propositions for the artistic creation in the present and future. |
