Analyzing "Yin Yuan Sheng Fa"

Yin Yuan Sheng FA is an essential subject of Chin Sheng-t'an's novel theory. In chapter 55 of Shui Hu that Jin once criticized, Naian wrote Shui Hu using Yin Yuan Sheng Fa as a general rule. Yin Yuan Sheng Fa had an vital instruction for the completion of Shui Hu. This subject is the firm foundation of Chin Sheng-t'an's novel theory.Yin Yuan Sheng Fa is from Buddhism and is the basic element of Yuan Qi. It can explain the appearance of universe, society, life and all kinds of spiritual things. Fa is the general name of all materials and spirits. Yin Yuan is the reason of Fa. There are plenty of things in the net of Yin Yuan. None of them can exist separately. Yin Yuan Sheng Fa disposed the corporality of universe and made it rooted in mind. The appearance and disappearance are the results of spiritual activity. Chin Sheng-t'an wanted to indicate that literature was the result of human being's spiritual activity. All kinds of Fa are from the literature mind. Chin Sheng-t'an believed that Shui Hu should be read like that. And it was created from the bel-esprit's mind.Chin Sheng-t'an raised a basic statement, do it with your mind, by using Buddhist's Yin Yuan Sheng Fa. He explained that the author should imagine himself to be the roles of the novel to create the live roles. But when you do it with your mind, you should set yourself into YinYuan. Then Chin Sheng-t'an raised another statement. Zhong Shu is the door of the method of Ge Wu. But Yin Yuan Sheng Fa is the premise of Ge Wu. Considering the reasons thoroughly, it is possible to reach the situation of Wu Ge and create live roles.All the things are from the Yin Yuan. Fa is among the relationships of Yin Yuan. Fa is a kind of rule. There is a rule in Buddhism and there is a rule in article, as well. Article has its own rules and skills, which should be answered by article, not by the mind. Jing Shengtan summarized the rules of article by using the word delicacy. What is delicacy? Words, sentences and chapters have their own rules.Chin Sheng-t'an divided the rule of article into four groups to analyze the arrangement of words, sentences and chapters. Chin Sheng-t'an got an idea of delicacy by reading Shui Hu. He believed that there were different rules accompanied with words, sentences and chapters. The rules of words are about rhetoric, while the rules of sentences are the skills of coordination of different paragraphs, and the rules of chapters are about the structures. Chin Sheng-t'an analyzed the rules about how to arrange the words and sentences from the view of article. Some of the rules were general, while others are detail. It was a milestone and significance for the deep development of criticism. The significance of these rules was not only about the forms, but also about...