"symbol Of Depression," Lu Xun's Literary Concept

Lu Xun, a great artist, not only achieved significant success in exercise of writing, but also developed systematical and deep art view. Lu Xun had passion to pursue setting up esthetics theory. He stood on the high view of "powerful country", "perfect people" and absorbed the western good art theory into his own world. Regarding to foreign art inheritance, he treated as "getting it as my own" but never exclusive it and never follow it blandly, inherited and developed it critically.Symbolism of Depress, which is wrote by H.Kuriyagawa, is one of Lu Xun's important esthetics theory work of "getting it as my own" theory and impacted his artistic view deeply. Symbolism of Depress described H.Kuriyagawa's view of essence of art, art appreciate, standard of art criticism and the source of art theory. From resonance of theory and the need of setting up art theory makes Lu Xun take it seriously. So, that is to say, the setup and development of many of Lu Xun's view has tight relationship to Symbolism of Depress. From reading the work, we can know more about Lu Xun's esthetic view.This paper, starts from Symbolism of Depress, digs Lu Xun's view of art by investigate his reference of it. The analysis on Lu Xun's reference of Symbolism of Depress from the following three aspects: 1^st: Indication of the view of self-expression, expressing self-character from art creation and art appreciation. 2^nd : General symbolizing expression and consistence of soul and flash. 3^rd: Look strait forward to utilitarianisms of art taste. Lu Xun's reference on these 3 aspects is not only his thinking and conclusion on his pre-writing activities, but also paves the road for the development of his middle and later esthetic view.