The Modern Revelation Of Li Changzhi's Literature Criticism Theory

In the Chinese modern literature history, Li Changzhi is a special theory critic. He had a strong passion for Chinese classical culture. He also held pure-hearted expectation of the future of Chinese culture. He insisted on the romanticism theory, and expressed his own criticism standard: the model of emotion. He summarized the soul of Chinese classical culture. He meditated the value of the May 4^th movement. He made a special discourse which was different from the main critical tendency in 20 century.The model of emotion is the core discourse of Li Changzhi's literature criticism theory. His opinion is that the essence of literature is to transmit the creator's emotion to the receiver, by the language, forming the art image. The process arouses the resonance between the creator and the receiver. Emotion is the headspring of the art creation. Conveying emotion is the purpose of art creation. In Li Changzhi's system, there are three significations of the model of emotion. For the first, it is the abstract summary of human being's permanent emotions. For the second, it is the type of emotion. It is the true expression from the human being's heart. For the third, it is an art sculpt. The model of emotion is the Lydian stone of the judgment of the literature. Compared with Mao Dun's criticism theory which advocates the literature is for the life, Li's theory runs for beauty of humanity which exceeds the times. While Mao runs for the rational cognition of the present situation. Compared with Zhou Yang's theory which supports the mechanical class consciousness, Li's attitude is anti-utilitarian and sincere.Li's criticism practice is under his theory, the model of emotion. His criticism aims at considering the writer's soul, and finds out the relationship between the soul and the times' spirit. Li's researching objects share the same spirits: they take on other people's suffering. They are high-spirited and great. The animadvert on Lu Xun is his best works. Instead of focusing on the aura of Lu, he directly walked into Lu's heart. He finally found out the model of emotion in Lu's works: love but disappointed. The sincere attitude is the most important meaning of The animadvert on Lu Xun.Li's meditation attitude towards the May 4^th Movement is genuine and self-conscious. He independently animadverted and he was very confident of Chinese culture. While he also admitted the fact that old era had passed, the coming of new era was inevitable. Li's literary conception was affected by German classical philosophy. His ideal person is a free, personality, noblest and perfect person. This conception is an important part of Li's theory system.We can come to a conclusion that the model of emotion of Li Changzhi is loving and hoping. He independently established his own criticism theory system which surrounded the model of emotion. His theory is an important reference to the whole literature criticism theory. His serious attitude to the literature and his attention to the value of humanity of literature are both worthwhile for the literature development.