On Style is widely translated in China. Buffon Buffon (1707- 1788) was elected as an academician of the French Academy on 1753. Stylistics is a famous speech he delivered when he was admitted to hospital, and it is a classic literary theory work. In view of the fashion of pursuing beauty and exquisiteness in the literary world at that time, he called for articles to be meaningful and approachable, and put forward the famous saying that "style is people", emphasizing the decisive role of ideological content in artistic form.