| In Chinese classical poetics and western modern poetics,“image” is a very important concept.In the early 20 th century,Hu Shi,Wen Yiduo,Li Jinfa,Liang Zongdai,Dai Wangshu,Ai Qing,Tang Shi,Yuan Kejia,Zong Baihua,Zhu Guangqian and other people all developed a strong interest in “image”.They deliberately summed up the experience of the creation of poetic imagery with a relatively sober sense of academy.It was not only an integration of western modern poetry theory,but also a productive trying to combine the traditional Chinese imagery poetics along with absorbing fruits and achievements in other western modern scientific fields such as psychology.They illustrated their comprehensions of “Image” from different angles.Their research on image is the Chinese image poetics in the early 20 th century.At the early 20 th century,the occurrence and development of Chinese image poetics was influenced by Chinese classical image poetics and western modern poetics.On the one hand,influenced by the“expensive the Yi” of Chinese classical imagery poetics,Liang Qichao and others advocated the “poetry revolution”and “My hand write my mouth”.They introduced new things into poetry,enriched the image of poetry,and expanded the artistic conception of poetry.Which is directly affects the movement of vernacular new poetry and the emergence ofChinese image poetics in the early 20 th century.On the other hand,the Imagery Poetics not only influenced Hu Shi’s “image” theory,but also influenced his “concrete approach”in his creation.Which guided the creation of vernacular new poetry to pay attention to image,and then promoted Chinese image poetics in the 1920 s and 1930 s.There have been many imagery theory emerged,such as Wen Yiduo’s “Illusion” theory,Li Jinfa,Dai Wangshu,Liang Zongdai took the symbolism imagery theory proposed by Symbolism Poetry,Zong Baihua’s “Moving Image” theory,Zhu Guangqian’s “Intuitive Imagery” theory.In the 1930 s and 1940 s,Chinese image poetics appeared in the realm of war,there have been Ai Qing’s “ Life feeling” theory,Zangkejia’s “Life imagery” theory,Tang Shi’s “Property”theory,Yuan Kejia’s “Image Type” theory.Although Chinese poets and scholars put forward the theory of image with different names in the early 20 th century,they all realized that the Noumenon of “image”contains the dual factors of “Yi” and“Xiang”.Therefore,when the Chinese image poetics in the early 20 th century discussed the ontological problem of imagery,there were two tendencies of “expensive the Yi” and “Worshiping the Xiang”.The theorists of “expensive the Yi” who believe that the “Yi” of imagery not only includes factors such as “love” and “ambition” in Chinese classical poetics.Moreover,it contains the concept of the subjective “meaning” of Western poetry about the intuition,imagination,association,reason,inspiration etc of literary creation and appreciation.Under the influence of traditional image poetics and western modern poetics,the theorists of“Worshiping the Xiang”discuss the “Xiang” of “ image ”from three common characteristics which are image,symbolic and variability of the“Xiang”category in China and the West.The Chinese imagery poetics in the early 20 th century also contained the theory of imagery creation and imagery criticism.The creation of image involves the understanding of the binary relationship between “Yi” and “Xiang”.In the process of image created by the senses,two creation methods of emotion generation theory and situational blending theory are produced.Zong Baihua and Zhu Guangqian had an exposition on the relationship between imagery and artistic conception.The creation of artistic conception is the expression of the“ moving image ” or create imagery with limited expression to show limitless aesthetic pursuit such as virtual or reality complement,realms created beyond images.Image criticism is a creative activity in which the appreciator communicates the creator’s emotion with the images of the work,understands,restores,interprets,judges and even recreates the images,and realizes their artistic value.In the process of appreciating and criticizing intuitive images in reading works,there are four kinds of psychological activities: reason,feeling,the image of feeling and resonance.In order to engage in image criticism,it is necessary to havekeen ability of language comprehension and superb ability of language use,the ability of sympathy and rich ability of imagination,extensive knowledge and the ability of analysis & comparison.In a word,under the background of the confluence of Chinese and Western cultures,poets and scholars at that time combined Chinese &Western image poetics and constructed the early 20 th century Chinese image poetics,which integrates development theory,ontology,creation theory and criticism.It is a valuable legacy left by senior scholars,and has important reference value for the content,form and method of contemporary Chinese literary theory research. |
