About The Life Consciousness In Han Yu's Literary Thoughts

As one of the most creative literates in Tang Dynasty, Han Yu contained abundant literary ideas of the life consciousness thoughts in his works and comments. On the base of the studies by our predecessors, the paper sums up several groups of the theoretical categories. As Han Yu's life consciousnesses and inditement is concerned, the paper, as a whole, can be divided into three chapters:1. "The function of literature". In Han Yu's view, the function of literature is to convey the Tao, which refers to the Confucian philosophical and moral principles. When Han Yu realizes that he by oneself couldn't save the middle Tang Dynasty by renewing and promoting Confucian ideas on the frustrated official travel, he reforms the style, initiates ancient Chinese prose and composes ancient poems in order to publicize Confucian ideas to solve social problems. Han Yu resumes the historical status of prose and extends its practical range to reflect every field of realistic living. And his prose has been permeated with fervor and sublime. At the same time, "logos" abstract conducted also hads some negative influence upon his articles. It is the performance that Han Yu give attention to individual life value and social life value, which clashes with each other.2. "Outcry against injustice". It is mainly affected by the Chinese idiom "Fa Fen Zhu Shu". (Make a determined effort to write books)But, Han Yu places more emphasis on the function of feels' noumena. He insists that the affection should be resented freely. Han Yu upholds queerness. He composes poems with sentence structure of prose and queer intention. He is quite aware that individual life should be vindicated carefully. The function that literature could vindicate the individual life is generalized "expressing griever, expressing sorrow with disport" and "writing just for fun" by Han Yu.3. "Qi Sheng Yan Yi". The sensibility of life gives new life into Inditement, which is on the premise of the writer's literary accomplishment in morality and personality, the acquisition of his literary and artistic competence through practice, the development of his personal artistic characteristics, the enlarging of his reading range, etc. aspiring enter. Writers have a high spirit of perfecting and displaying his features of ego life adequately. And it incarnates that Han Yu attaches more importance to the consciousness of Confucianism life, but he dosn't ignore the consciousness of Taoistic life by no means.