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Yangxiong has earned his fame by the prose poems,and he has writed a large quantities of elegant profound prose poems. At his old age, Yangxiong turned to the academic writings, his "Fa Yan" inherited with the Confucianist classics "Confucian Analects". "Fa Yan" comprehensively and profoundly unfolded Yangxiong's thoughts that elaborated the literature thoughts was especially noticeable.The basic reason of why Yangxiong writes "Fa Yan" lies in his academic thoughts. Yangxiong is a man who is firmly stick with the Confuciousand Meng Zi's Confucianism in pre-Qin. Yangxiong writes "Fa Yan", wants to correct the acdamic tradition, the general mood of society as well as the literary style by pre-Qin traditional Confucianism. At the same time, Yangxiong also wants to establish his new Confucianism system,and to elaborate the essential meaning of Confucianism.Yangxiong's academic thoughts affect him profoundly regarding his literature understanding and the viewpoint. Yangxiong's literature viewpoint more to inherit with and carry forward pre-Qin traditional Confucianism literary thoughts. The core of Fa Yan's literature view is Mingdao, Zhengsheng,andZongJing. Yangxiong has inherited and developed the spirit advocated by Confucian ,Mengzi and Xunzi ,then established the Trinity thought principle of Mingdao, Zhengsheng and Zongjing.The standpoint of Yangxiong's criticism in the prose poems is "Satire and Remonstration", this is consistent in his literature thought. In Yangxiong'searly time,he took seriously to bestow on it. The old age,Yangxiong realized that the prose poems' function of satire and remonstration is minisculely,therefore denied prose poems as"pretty and excessively". Looks over Han Dynasty's literature thoughts,the formation of Yangxiong's thoughts has a profound social reason. Adds to Yangxiong's Confucianism -persevering thoughts as well as the time background, had decided Yangxiong's literature viewpoint which he took great notice to satire and remonstration. Based on this,Yangxiong proposed the prose poems' writing principle: "pretty and principle".Took comprehensive survey on Yangxiong's practice and his thoughts, the primary cause of his attitude transformation lie in: the prose poems'own characteristic and the writer's social position.Obviously,Yangxiong's view ahout the relationship between writings and content has inherited from the Confucianist's literary thoughts and developed it.Therefore,Yangxiong applied it into the literary work commentary formaly, then has formed the explicit literature theory. Yangxiong's view is literary talent and the content are all very nice. He wanted to correct the literary style at that time, therefore,he said a lot ahout the content. He emphasized the content has two points:One is Confucious's theory about "dao";Another is "the heary" or "the matter", refers that article should express the emotion or transmiss the affair.Yangxiong actually summarized this from the Five Classics.The theory still manifested his spirit of zongjing.In the discussion of the relationship between words and meaning , Confucianism and Taoism's influences are profoundest .Yangxiong's viewpoint about the relationship between words and meaning is fuse these two thoughts. Yangxiong embarked from the writing experience. on the one hand,he thought that it's difficult to achive the meaning by words;On the ,he believed that the words can express the meaning ,the Confucian classics is the best example. Therefore,Yangxiong believed that the solution to the contradictory between words and meaning is study to the sageand the Confucian classics.Thus,he advocated to restore the old writing style.Yangxiong's literature view have a very big affection on the later generation. He proposed that theory system of Mingdao,Zhengsheng and Zongjing,which has established ancient literature orthodox ideas in China after Confucius and Mengzi;His writings practice also has the important inspiration to later generation's literary production;From the Eastern Han Dynasty to Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties,these literature theory were basically inherited Yangxiong's viewpoint;Yangxiong's advocation to restore the old literary style to investigate the mistake in that time,also made a very large nfluence on the writers and theoretician after him .