The Change From History To Literature And The Merge Of Truth And Beauty

The textual criticism of poetics which study the Chinese classical poetry by the textual criticism method,is an academic type which has a long history and a profound influence.However, textual criticism pursuits truth while poetry is aesthetic.So it's always been difficult to merge the two together.There were some scholars who worked on the textual criticism of poetics in 20^th century and we can see the difference between them.Therefore,the dissertation takes Cen Zhongmian and Chen Yinque the two who study the Tang Poetics as examples to analyze the difference between their textual criticism methods.And thereby we discuss how to achieve the true study of textual criticism of poetics which merge the textual criticism and aesthetic study together.From the beginning of 20^th century,the textual criticism was always considered by prejudice as a study of data and documentation.By sorting out the differences-seeking studies on Qing Dynasty scholars'textual criticism methods by Liu Shipei,Hu Shi and Liang Qichao,and by analyzing Chen Yuan,Yan Gengwang and Gu Jiegang's historical data study and historical study, we can easily find that their different textual criticism methods led to different academic study focuses.And the difference shows very clearly in Cen Zhongmian and Chen Yinque's practice in Tang Dynasty historical study.In Cen Zhongmian's criticism to Chen Yinque,it's easily seen that Cen placed extra emphasis on documentary textual criticism which focuses on origin-seeking while Chen not only sorted out historical data but also transcended historical data.That's the concentrated reflection of different methods in modern textual criticism.As academic methods,we cannot say which one is better.However,to poetics,Cen's method focuses on sorting out the documentation of Tang Dynasty poetics while Chen's method is more of poetic perspective and aesthetic discovery.Therefore,there are three questions which cannot be ignored in the study of textual criticism of poetics since 20th century:1) the original question why we do textual criticism in poetics;2)the internal questions in literal textual criticism,documentary textual criticism and historical criticism; 3)the interaction between documentary textual criticism and historical textual criticism labeled to Cen and Chen.In conclusion,although there's no settled method in poetics,Chen Yinque's study of textual criticism of poetics,which emphasize the discovery of aesthetic features of Chinese poetry and artistic feeling in logical demonstration,is an important approach which should be used as a source of reference by today's poetics scholars.