During the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, the theory of "poetry expressing ambition" dominated. Lu Ji, a famous writer in the Western Jin Dynasty, put forward the theory of "poetry is based on emotion", and his Wen Fu put forward the theory of "poetry is beautiful because of emotion".
Hu Yinglin, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, once commented in "Poetry": "There is a saying in literary works,' Poetry is beautiful because of emotion', and the poetry of the Six Dynasties has its own style, which was not available before the Han Dynasty."
It means: Lu Ji's "Wen Fu" says that poetry is used to express feelings, and the words should be beautiful and delicate. Most of the poems of the Six Dynasties came from here, which had never happened before the Han Dynasty.
The influence and creativity of Lu Ji's poetics can be seen here. His theory broke the shackles of Confucian orthodox literary concept of "poetry expressing ambition" and highly summarized and summarized the artistic law of poetry's development in the direction of lyricism and formal beauty after Jian 'an and the Western Jin Dynasty.
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Wen Fu is a literary theory work of Lu Ji in Jin Dynasty. The preface of Fu explains the reason and intention of creation, and points out the confusion that "meaning is not equal to things, but is insufficient". It is believed that although we can learn from the experience of predecessors, the understanding of writing mainly depends on personal exploration in practice.
The relationship between "meaning and content" and "knowledge and ability" are two major problems that should be handled well in writing.
Then, it describes that it is extremely difficult to maintain a high concentration of spiritual concepts, eliminate any distractions, devote oneself to concepts, and make full use of imagination and association to obtain accurate language. It is extremely difficult to explore the accumulation of the past and seek novel words that fully express emotions.
Then it discusses the intention of writing, expounds the pleasure of writing from two aspects of thought and language, discusses the reasons for the diversity of styles, analyzes the characteristics of ten languages, discusses four problems that should be handled well in writing, explains the difficulty of writing, and finally discusses the artistic inspiration and the role of articles.
The appearance of "Wen Fu" is the theoretical crystallization based on a large number of creative practices after literature got rid of the vassal status of Confucian classics and developed independently. For the first time, Wen Fu put the creative process, writing methods and rhetorical skills on the agenda of literary criticism.
The purpose of Lu Ji's writing Wen Fu is to solve the contradiction of "meaning doesn't weigh things, and text doesn't know meaning". Therefore, around the creative thinking, this paper mainly discusses "the reasons for the interesting composition", that is, the methods, skills and artistry of writing articles. Doing so will inevitably reveal the traces of "formalism", but this obviously cannot affect Lu Ji's contribution to prose.
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