Confucius Thought Character Of Literature And Art Interpretation

Through its pondering of the ideal personality, Confucius's literary thought manifests itself, and the ideal personality was defined in the dialectical relations among rites, music courtesy and benevolence. The external rites and music culture and the intrinsic spirit support each other mutually. The rites and music is specified for human beings, through the normalization of people's behavior, it purifies people's minds and specifies the personality; But the benevolence, as the mind's specified essence, is the intrinsic basis of the rites and music. the essence of the rites and music is determined by the essence of mind. The ideal personality obtains its stipulation through the interactive relations between the rites & music and the benevolence. It is manifested by the harmony and unification between Wen and Zhi, beauty and kindness. The literary arts, as the unique cultural creation of human being, intensively manifests this essential characteristic of people.The rites & music culture was the reasonable world order people believed at that time, it was the existing world human lives in and receives its stipulation at the same time. The rites & music culture external stipulates the ideal personality through the civilization function. The benevolence is the essence of mind. It is not an abstract and isolated noumenon existence but merges with person's realistic emotion and the behavior as a whole. The quality of intentional noumenon determines the actuality and superiority of the rites & music. Its essence is the unification of both of them two.Confucius understands the human being both from the external social being, and from the intrinsic existence. He believes the human being owns both the actuality as a society member and the superiority as a spiritual main body. The ideal personality is the harmony and unification of the benevolence and the rites & music. The literary arts, as the unique cultural creation of human being, intensively manifests this essential characteristic of people. Therefore, Confucius's literary beliefs dwell only in his understanding to human beings. The ideal personality is the unification between Wen and Zhi, therefore, literary art is the harmony and unification between its content and format. The value of literary art is the unification of beauty and kindness. The essence of poetry and music is the harmony between emotion and ideal.