Coverall Article, A Wide World Lies Halfway--Researching About Lin Yuatng's Mean

"The doctrine of the mean" is as one of the important composed parts of Lin Ytang's humanism thought is a very vital aspect of Lin Yutang's culture thought. At the same it is also a basic attitude which Lin Yutang treat life and art. As one of the traditional element, "the doctrine of the mean" exists with a kind of new life form in Yutang Lin. "the doctrine of the mean" is a kind of cosmic philosophy of life in Lin Yutang, and is a composed performance of near feelings of Chinese culture spirit .Near feelings is its core, and reasonableness and cornmonsense are its contents. It reflects a kind of attitude of cosmic philosophy of life which is based on "humanbeing" . Lin Yutang endows it modernistic meaning with a kind of culture thinking of modernist.The contents of article are divided into four parts. From the second chapter to the fifth chapter, I systemically discuss the characteristic of theory and practice about Lin Yutang's mean in the article. I mainly discuss the connotation of mean in Lin Yutang's works in the second chapter, pointing out the connotation of Lin Yutang's mean about person from near feeling , reasonableness.commonsense. We find out the difference between Lin Yutang's mean and traditional mean though comparing Lin Yutang's mean with traditional mean. The article embodies the characteristic of Lin Yutang's mean in the third chapter. Then I discuss the modernistic value of Lin Yutang's mean from personality and freedom. I affirms that Lin Yutang's aesthetic principle of mean is multiplicate factors and supplement.