Research On The Category Of “Spirit” In Ancient Chinese Poetics

In the Chinese poetics system,"spirit" is a category that is very inclusive and communicative.It has a profound impact on the creative thinking,aesthetic orientation,and value pursuit of Chinese literary theory,and its content is rich and has a multi-dimensional cultural connotation,but can also be extracted the most core poetic interests.At the beginning of the birth of "spirit",it exists in people's ideas.The powerful and irresistible mysterious power in nature is regarded as the "spirit" in people's heart.This kind of belief has generally experienced from the worship of nature to the deification of people.The process of returning to nature.From the perspective of the word "spirit",it composed of "shi" and "shen",its core meaning is "ancestor" and "spiritual",so it is developed based on two contexts,one is the various meanings derived from essence and origin,and the other is the meaning and connotation derived from its mysterious and abstruse characteristics.The category of "spirit" occupies an important position in the Chinese poetic system and the multi-dimensional cultural connotations of Confucianism,Buddhism,and Taoism have had a profound impact on it.Different cultural cores have endowed different characteristics of "spirit" in poetics and the different cultural connotation has enriched the meaning of "spirit" in aesthetic ideals,artistic pursuits,and poetry creation.The idea of "advocating spirit" in Buddhism permeates the poetry,and "emptiness" and "enlightenment" also provide Buddhist support for "spirit"."Spirit" in metaphysics is a variation of "Tao",which promoted the aesthetic principles of "advocating the void" and "nature" in poetics."spirit"."Understand with spirit","Vacancy" and "Consideration" all provide thought references for literary activities.In Confucianism,"heaven" is regarded as "spirit",and the relationship between god and men is the origin of the relationship between man and nature,which promotes the creation of the creation of the poetic view of "unity of man and nature".In the creation of poetry,"air",as the essence of "spirit",is the source of life of the creative subject.The spirit of heaven and earth condenses into the writer's will and speaks as poetry."air" is the driving force of poetry creation;In theartistic presentation of poetry,"spirit" often uses "forms" as its carrier,and pays equal attention to form and spirit,but more often,it takes "more looks at the spirits" rather than "forms",and seeks implicit and blank poetics Meaning;In the appreciation of poetry,the aesthetic dimension of "spirit" is mainly manifested in its vitality and miraculous qualities.Based on the specific realization mechanism of the creative motivation,artistic manifestation,and dimensions of appreciation of the "spirit" category,the core poetic purport of "spirit" can be extracted,that is,its multiple expressions in literary and artistic creation: the first is the ephemeral inspiration that comes out of the thrill of things,the second is the magical creative thinking of unity of finiteness and infinity,the third is the beauty of cadence and charm displayed by the "spirit" in poetry and the fourth is the most poetic ascend to the extreme realm of the gods.