The Study Of The Main Artistic Ideas About Ts’ang-Lang’s Remarks On Poetry

Ts’ang-Lang’s Remarks on Poetry by Yan Yu in Southern Song Dynasty is the bestone of the Song Dynasty poetics, it not only puts forward for the open boundarybetween Tang and Song poetry for the first time, sets future generations’s complimentfor Tang and Song poetry, but also introduces the basic characteristics of Tang andSong poetry, and what’s more, it also puts forward a series of aesthetic proposition:inspired feeling, miraculous enlightenment, miraculous awakening. The three conceptscan be seen the core of Yan Yu’s poetic thoughts, which reveal the fundamentalproblem of a series of poetic theory with a new concept and a unique perspective andprovide rich contents for the diversification of the subsequent development of poetics.We can therefore say that no matter who researches into Ts’ang-Lang’s Remarks onPoetry can’t kept off inspired feeling, miraculous enlightenment, miraculousawakening, which are worth investigating further when viewed from all sides. Theimportant is studying the theory intension of inspired feeling, miraculousenlightenment, miraculous awakening, combining literature and art thinking studyingand aesthetics. The introductory chapter emphasizes the paper’s the reasons of writing, allthe present research results, basis thinking and the innovation. The first chapter focuseson the culture background of Ts’ang-Lang’s Remarks on Poetry, which is produced inSong Dynasty literary aesthetic ideas and the morals dominated by Jiangxi School inthe poetry. The second chapter focuses on the analysis of inspired feeling, whichreflects Yan Yu’s artistic ideal. As a special term of literary criticism, inspired feeling isa compound word which is constantly enriched along with its emergence anddevelopment. In addition, Yan Yu attributed the characteristics0f the Tang dynastypoetry to inspired feeling to carry forward a different mood of the artistic ideal. Thethird chapter attempts to interpret miraculous enlightenment. Miraculous enlightenmentis the core of art thinking in terms of the poetry writer and the poetry appreciator,which also is an attribute and the roots of art thinking in pursuit of the undisturbed andvacant state of the art and Artistic Beauty0f the poetry. Besides, although Yan Yuemphasizes that miraculous enlightenment is not about book and rationality, definitelyclaims more reading and more rationality, which reveals that art thinking is a specialmental activity which is beyond the knowledge and logic but contains the knowledge and logic. The fourth chapter discusses miraculous awakening. Miraculous awakeningis right previously of inspired feeling and miraculous enlightenment. Inspired byBuddhism, Yan Yu applies the concept of apperception to his poetry theory, whichfulfill the theory of inspired feeling. At the same time, Yan Yu emphasizes that poeticcreativity can be made without restriction of the language and logic under the influenceof the views of no language, which shares many common grounds with Cahills’ theorythat language has the upper and lower specification limits. The fifth chapter discussesthe important role of Ts’ang-Lang’s Remarks in Chinese poetic history, including itspositive effect and negative effect.