The Current Meaning Of Lin Yutang's Literary Ideas

Lin Yu tang is a scholar and writer who is evaluated "his feet are on both eastern andwestern culture, his heart comments articles in the whole cosmos." His special childhoodexperience, studying career at his youth and his living abroad at his middle ages, all of thatbrings up his broad and profound learning which is throughout in and out, modern andancient, all of that also trains his eccentric aesthetic temperament and interest. Confronted with the deteriorating catastrophe and difficult position that areunavoidably brought by modern science and technology in 19 century, Lin Yu tang has adeep and serious thought of Chinese's human nature culture, literature and literary formand style from philosophy angle, and then makes a profound discussion of the culturerelation between east and west. In the confrontation between humanism and science, Lin Yu tang brings up his specialmodern conception of literature and literary form. With respect to literature conception, LinYu tang approves and develop Yuan Hong Dao's conception of nature and temperament.Lin Yu tang pursues human Neumann sense, he emphasizes enjoyment, individual andpersonality training, he also advocates aesthetic life, beauty, love and freedom, he likesmild culture disposition, avoiding worries and coarse things. All of these are fairly valuableand significant in china modern literature history. Following Lin Yu tang's literature conception modernity, the literary form modernityalso appears. Freedom spirit makes his writing style more liberated, viewpoint wider,character more vivid, writing tone more calm and content more colorful. Lin Yu tang'squotation writing style gets rid of nation, people and some political conceptions completely,while it opens door, loosens hands and feet, his articles confronts nature and folk life. Themeans by which this kind of familiar essay grasps the world not only displays all kinds ofnatural and social phenomena, but also see through the philosophical thought, his articleslead readers to a higher level unconsciously. Lin Yu tang, as a boundary studying phenomenon, it has its own independence, but itnot exists independently, it has complex relations between Chinese traditional and westernculture. I decide to break through the predecessors' studying angle (society and history),analyses Lin Yu tang's phenomenon with culture view. My studying is to demonstrate LinYu tang literary ideas' existing meaning.