The Study Of Bi-xing Thinking

Bi [similarly] xing [associative] is the most original key discourse in Chinese Classical Aesthetic of Literature and Art [CCALA].It composes of complicate implications.As a mode of artistic thinking,Bi-xing can be named as Bi-xing lhinking,in which one thing is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing,by comprehensive employment of association, imagination,symbolism,metaphor to show the inner beauty shared by the two.Bi-xing thinking has its root in human primitive thinking and remains mystry of primitive thinking.Bi-xing was a way of annotating and interpreting poems used by Confucianists in the very beginning ,but its connotation has changed gradully and continually in its proces. Poems were metaphorically annotated as in struction of rolitics,ethlics and morality by means of Bi-xing thinking,which resulted in the being of the theory of Bi-xing thinking. While in its developmenl,Bi-xing thinking has been of a unique bearing of thinking and poetic character, which can be the equialace of imagination,symbolism,metaphor and inspiration in western aesthetics.Tracing the use of Bi-xing thinking in process,we can find out the comprehersive employment of association in artistic creation. The spirit of nature influences the particular objects in nature, and the particular objects in nature affect men.Men,having their natural affribules and feelings moved and swayed,give them defined expressions in art.This and be defined as the organism of artistic creation fered by Bi-xing thinking. Xing [association] is the core in the process of objects affecting men,and Bi[Similarity] is the core in the process of men denoting objects. Bi-xing thinking pays an important role in imaginative creation,and demonstrates its creative character in the development of poetic language.Although writtings in the vernacular has taken the place or writings in classical chinese,Bi-xing thinking still plays an active part in creation of modern literature and art.As the penefration of culture globlization and western ideas of aesthetic.Bi-xing thinking faces an alternation of modernization, in the coures of formulaling modern Chinese syslem of aeslhelics in lileraluer and art.Bi-xing thinking will exert great influence on modern literalure and art after ils own modernizalion and conformation in a new era.