The Theory Of Criteria Concerning The Dragon Carved In The Heart Of Literature

Content: The Dragon Carved in the Heart of Literature written by Liu Xie is a great works in the history of Chinese literary and artistic theory. The vast and profound system of thoughts; systematic and careful structure of content; cultural foundation based on thorough knowledge of books in general; neat and brilliant words of parallel prose in this works are all worth learning and studying carefully.The academic circles usually divide the 50 pieces of this book into four parts: summaries of theory; the theory of literary form; the theory of literary creation; the theory of criticism. Each part includes specific pieces. Based on absorbing the existing achievement in academic circles, this thesis advanced a new way of research. That is there is a theory of criteria in The Dragon Carved in the Heart of Literature. It is the thread of thought in the whole book, runs through every piece, is the program of ideas that the author held while writing this book and is the essence of content that has fairly high academic value. The Artistic Criteria concerning The Dragon Carved in the Heart of Literature, thesis that written by Wang Yunxi, enlightened me directly.The basic view of this thesis is that Liu Xie founded a series of criteria in The Dragon Carved in the Heart of Literature to guide people on literary creation, appreciating works, judging ability and other literary activities. The theory of criteria itself forms a system. This is a quite perfect system of thought. It includes five aspects: criteria of literary works' function; criteria of literary form; criteria of artistry; criteria of literary creation; criteria of criticism.This thesis is based on studying The Dragon Carved in the Heart of Literature and books that proofread and correct and annotate this works. Through accurate understanding the thought of Liu Xie, this thesis seeks out and clarifies the exposition about the theory of criteria in this works, uses the theory of criteria as the main clue to show the major literary and artistic ideas of Liu Xie, deposits these ideas into the history of Chinese literary and artistic theory and judges the value of them, absorbs their cream, rejects their dross, provides some references to the research about "dragon study" and the construction of literary theory at present.