On The Aesthetics Of Chuanshan's Emotion Theory

Chuanshan's works have lots of rolls and rich contents, so researchers can study them from various aspects. The paper discusses his emotion theory with his works, poetics and philosophy, making good use of existentialism, hermeneutic, symbolic and skepticism and finds that Chuanshan's emotion theory is not arranged clearly and definitely and even full of contradictions, but it has rich and heuristic emotion contents.Chuanshan has many merits, accomplishments and poetic charm in his life, so the emotion theory is one important part of his poetics and philosophy. He considers emotion is the source of the poem and poem's refinement and popularity are closely connected with emotion, so the loyalty of emotion decides the value of works and the emotion by nature is the decisive factor in works and becomes the source of the poem.Chuanshan's philosophical emotion theory includes the explanation of the theory on sentiment of Confucianism and the theory on natural emotion of Buddhism and Daoism. The theory on sentiment of Confucianism has two ways to explain, which are "producing" and "in-sein". The idea of "only nature produces emotion" is carried on from Zhu Xi, whose inference is that emotion is virtuous and not evil. The idea of "nature go freely in emotion" is Chuanshan's own creation and his inference is that emotion has not its nature and evil comes from emotion. Therefore his theory on sentiment of Confucianism is full of contradiction and the emotion by nature is the ideal state. The theory on natural emotion of Buddhism and Daoism is criticized by chuanshan and he finds some reasons of emotion of "Xian Liang" and "Si Xu" from the analyzing...