A Study Of The Comments On Wen Xuan In Li Dai Wen Hua

Wen Hua,together with Shi Hua and Ci Hua,is an important composition in ancient Chinese literary criticism.Its focus is on ancient article criticism,including such aspects as literary theory,literary atmosphere,literary context,literary style,literary method,literary criticism,literary development and so on.Wen Hua originated in the Song Dynasty,developed through the Song,Jin,Yuan Dynasty into the prosperous stage in the Ming and Qing Dynasty.According to the historical records of the bibliography,there are more than one hundred kinds of important books on Wen Hua.But the collection and compilation of the material on Wen Hua for a long time has been in a state of lack.In recent years,the study of Wen Hua has made a breakthrough with the publication of Li Dai Wen Hua edited by Wang Shui-zhao and the extension of Li Dai Wen Hua edited by Yu Zu-kun.The publication of this series of books has filled the nothingness in the collation of literature on Wen Hua in China and provided rich literature materials for the study of the history of Chinese literature,the history of Chinese literary criticism and the history of Chinese linguistics,which has important academic value and considerable cultural significance.Li Dai Wen Hua as the compilation of the research materials and commentary information on the ancient Chinese articles has a lot of commentary information on Wen Xuan in it and the evaluation perspective is diverse.On the standard of selecting articles of Wen Xuan,it does not go beyond the range of “Meaning profound and Diction gorgeous”.The commentary from Li Dai Wen Hua on the articles of Wen Xuan including such as analysis of difficult words,commentary on the art style of the works,exploration to the method of writing and so on.The interpretation of difficult words in the works,correcting the mistakes of Li Shan′s note and making a useful supplement for the deficiencies of Li Shan′s note.The breakthrough on the method of evaluating artistic style of works is that using the metaphorical rhetoric to make the abstract art style into concretization.We make an analysis of the imitation phenomenon between the works of Wen Xuan to found the way of using mimesis.You only need to learn the method of writing the work but the words.It is best not to let the reader find the mimetic contents.To write an article,first of all,you need to catch the whole structure of the article.Then you need to select the words according to the style of the work and write them down.Comparison is the most commonly used method of Li Dai Wen Hua while appraising the articles of Wen Xuan.The commentary from Li Dai Wen Hua on the style of the works of Wen Xuan including such as the interpretation of the name of the style of the works,the evolution of the style,the classification of the style,the format of the style and so on.They interpret the name of the style of the works according to the dictionary,rhyme book or the words of former philosophy.Some people make an analogy to interpret the name of the style of the works.About the origin of the style of the works,they hold the point of Wu Jing.Wen Xuan gets criticized for the classification of the style of the works is too cumbersome and the name of the style of the works is improper.The format of the style of the works summarized in Li Dai Wen Hua is basically similar to the writing style of the work in Wen Xuan.