What kind of book is Wenxin Carving Dragon ?

Wenxin Carving Dragon" is ten volumes, a total of fifty articles, divided into two parts, is the earliest and most systematic literary theory work in China, discusses the nature and style of literature, and some theoretical issues of literary creation and criticism. He also pointed out the importance of the artistic characteristics of the work. The book also discusses the issues of stylistics, phonology, discipline, grammar, rhetoric, etc., and also has an important position in linguistics.

Author; Liu Xian (c. 465 520 AD): The character Yanhe, a native of Ju County, Qiliang, Southern Dynasty. In the Liang Dynasty, Liu Xianguan was promoted to the infantry captain and the general secretary of the East Palace.

He studied Buddhism, literature and history, and Xiao Tong, the prince of Zhaoming, appreciated him very much. The most influential annotations include Huang Shulin's "Wenxin Carving Dragon Collection Notes" by the Qing dynasty. Fan Wenlan, a close friend, "Wenxin Carving Dragon Note".

Huang Kan's "Wenxin Carving Dragon Notes", Liu Yongji's "Wenxin Carving Dragon Proofreading". can be referred to.

With Confucianism as the core Although there are some Taoist and Buddhist influences in Wenxin Carving the Dragon, it is Confucianism that constitutes its literary ideological program and core. It does not deny the reality of the existence of the material world, but it does believe that outside of the objective reality there is an innate "Tao" or "God." This "Tao" or "God" is the invisible and ultimate basis for determining all changes in the objective world.

Liu Xian's belief that "the original Taoist mind teaches by studying theology and reasoning" ("The Original Dao") is the fundamental principle of the sages' writings on the classics. "Shinto teaching" is said in "Yi 6 4 Guan 6 4 彖": "The saint uses Shinto to teach and the world obeys".

The supernatural personified "gods" and their real-life human emperors are taken for granted as supreme authority. According to this insight, "Wenxin Carving Dragon" not only further developed Xunzi's views on "original way", "sect scripture" and "sheng" since Yangxiong, but also penetrated it into all important aspects of Wenxin Carving Dragon, becoming the fundamental basis for his arguments, dyeing his theory with a layer of scripture and bringing many limitations. For example, he considers all kinds of articles to be classic "branches".

There are special topics for various application articles at that time, but they are disdainful of the ** that is being formed. However, when discussing specific literary creation activities, Wenxin Carving the Dragon discarded the abstract preaching of scholars and expressed a simple materialist view of literature, and also put forward exquisite and penetrating views on a series of issues such as literary creation, literary criticism, and the characteristics and laws of literature, which were full of originality. Therefore, it occupies a very important position in the history of Chinese literary theory and criticism. Turn.