Re Interpretation Of Lin Yutang’s Thought Of Literary And Artistic Aesthetics

Humor, as an aesthetic concept, appears late in china, but it has a long history as a comedy category.In the history of modern Chinese literature, the person who first thinks of humor as an art, claims to advocate it and also carries out by actual efforts, is Lin Yutang. He is regarded as the twentieth century renowned Chinese and Western "The Humorist", and as a messenger of cultural exchanges between China and the west, so it is necessary to sort out some of his aesthetic thought of literature and art, and put forward the views for his sense of literary theory here.In the early twentieth Century, great changes have taken place in China, and the five four new culture movement has had a profound impact on Modern Chinese writers’ thoughts.Chinese intellectuals in this period accepted a large number of Western and many advanced ideas and theories, which gave them blood of the new culture, so that they have a certain impact on literary creation.But a literary creation must need literature accumulation, the Chinese traditional culture essence in the western culture flood never lost its charm.Lin Yutang was born in a village in the southern part of Fujian. His hometown’s landscape environment, inspired his imagination, but also cultivated his broad mind, while the spirit of water giving him the wisdom of the observation. He was born in a Christian cultural family. From an early age to accept the Christian culture and the education of love, he has a certain influence on the mercy of humor theory later.Optimist’s father, open-minded, full of idealism, love the new culture, tried his best to put their knowledge to their children. Lin Yutang accepted "classics" and the poetry of Tang and song taught by his father, which initially formed his aesthetic thought of literature and art culture foundation.Since he was in the church school from his childhood to the university, he received the most in the early days is necessarily western culture. It can be said that the church school learning made the preparation for his learning western culture and thought.He has a good command of English, so Lin Yutang can compare Chinese culture with Western culture, to promote the better Chinese culture in foreign countries. His humor theory was put forward by the twenty’s, only with the aesthetic concept of meaning, and at this time, it had a stronger comical meaning.By the time of the Analects of Confucius in the thirty’s, Lin Yutang’s humor began to touch the the human heart, and the humor is a kind of transcendent realm of life, which has a heart of compassion.Thirty years later Lin Yutang went abroad, during the years of living in the United States,Lin Yutang added the on the function of humor on psychology. Humor has the role of psychological adjustment, to bring happiness to our boring life.In the 1970s at the thirty seventh session of the Seoul meeting of pen Lin Yutang developed the humor as a part of the human soul, of not only the people of the East, also the west. Humor is the spiritual wealth of human beings, the beautiful flowers from the human’s heart and has a lofty realm, bring us a shock to the spirit. In this narrative, a "think" and "sense" method is adopted to carry out the comedy and seriousness of humor, the purpose is to better understand the charm of humor aesthetics from the mind. And it can also be seen from the objective point of view that the positive meaning of humor.A major aspect of the theory of Lin Yutang’s aesthetic thought of literature and art, is theory of personality. As a modern writer, due to the different background, the theory of the Ming and Qing Dynasties between Lin Yutang have come down in one continuous line but also have different. Lin Yutang’s theory added more life circumstances. His theory is sensible, is close to the life. Lin Yutang is good at expressing views on life from the life every sides, including beauty of love for life the ugliness of the disclosure. His theory pursuit a true reflection of life, but not necessarily from the major national background materials, and pay attention to the drawn from the heart and life of individuals, from the dull life show defects of culture to human nature selfish and narrow-minded. Lin Yutang’s theory and humor promote each other, and truly humorous literature advocate the need for spiritual liberation. Humorous literature must be spiritual literature, humor moisture spiritual literature. Rational aesthetics must be full of life and hardships, a reflection and criticism of the reality of life. His reasonableness is from the better point of view of true feelings, in accord with our common sense aspect, in a way that science can’t solve the angle to evaluate our true life, the ugliness of life were revealed. On the other hand, it was also full of life loving, and that sickness and death is the natural law. Concept of Lin Yu Tang’s later literature and art under the influence of Taoist culture. Life is short, we must comply with the destiny, but we must use the limited life to create great value. So Lin Yutang on the other hand, gives we a education of life, and teaches us to cherish life. Finally, in today’s society, the rapid development of Internet, the rise of network literature, and the popular network humorous literature, has been developed as a parody of literary phenomenon, which has lost high humor and seriousness, lack of cultural and spiritual guidance significance. Lin Yutang’s humor theory is full of human care and educational significance. It has certain guidance and reference significance for the popular black humor and the "Parody literature" of today’s network.