A Brief Discussion On The Causes Of Formation Of Liang Qi-chao's Novel Theory

This paper explores the causes of formation of Liang Qi-chao' snovel theory, from the occuring angel.After introduced and brieflycomment on the novel theory of Liang, this paper explores fourimportantcauses, as follows:First, traditional novel theory is the basis for Liang Qi-chao' s novaltheory, which is opposed to the traditional novel theory thoroughly,however, in a large area, is right consistent to the traditinal literaturetheory.Second , Liang Qi-chao' s novel theory is the result of hisenlightenment thoughts which included Reform thoughts andRenewing—people thoughts, affected Liang Qi-chao' s novel theory infour stages: initial stage, development stage, maturation stage andvariation stage.Third, Japanese political novel affected Liang Qi-chao' s noveltheory in many aspects, such as the adoration of Japanese political noval,the extremely praise for noval, the opinions of function and noumenon ofnovel, and so on. Therefore, Japanese political novel is the mostimportant reason for the creation of Liang Qi-chao' s noval theory.Fourth, Buddhism thoughts had influenced Liang Qi-chao' s noveltheory in two aspects: one is that a great number of Buddhism wordswere used to build his novel theory, the other is that the Buddhist idealisticoffered a world view for him to form his novel theory.