Xunzi's Rite-music Standpoint About His Literary And Artistic Thinking And Production

Xunzi,as the last great thinker of the pre-Qin Confucian school ,has made great contributions to formation and development of Chinese literary and artistic thinking. In this paper, based on the Xunzi's Rite-music nuclear thinking, comb and scan his literary and artistic thinking to explore its theoretical value. The introduction part summarize academia research currently about Xunzi Literary and artistic thinking , therefore definite the exist value of the Paper, interpret its subject.The first chapter discuss the rite-music standpoint foundation of Xunzi's literary and artistic thinking from philosophical and realistic basis. Nature nauseated is the theoretical principle of Xunzi's rite-music theory .This is in accord with the whole theory system of Xunzi. His literary and artistic viewpoint establish on the basis. differentiating sky and man, Xunzi attach importance to literare humaniores and art. This is important theoretical basis of Xunzi's Literary and artistic thinking. Xunzi period is the realistic foundation to his theory."rite-music fall into ruins"force people to think the value of rite-music once more, there out, literature and art is valued for the close relationship with rite-music.The second chapter is divided into two parts, investigate respectively the views of xunzi about music and poetry and the relationship of xunzi and poem-teaching and music-teaching. Xunzi has a high level of attention to music, he has outstanding contributions to Confucian music-teaching carrying on. Xunzi of poetry, while carrying on the Confucian"poetry express ambition"tradition and realize that the"romantic poetry". The"poetry express ambition", he also proposed his own views, subordinate to his rite-music theory system."romantic poetry"is in accord with xunzi's thinking of temperament. Xunzi consider rationally that the natural ardor should be expressed under the righteousness. The part probe finally the relationship between xunzi and Confucian poem-teaching from xunzi's spreading and commenting poetry to take shape han-dynasty poem-teaching.The third chapter discusses xunzi's literature thinking and his practice in xunzi. The first part probe xunzi's unified concept between literature and morality. The second part survey the integration from the perfect combination between idea content and form.The last section sums up full text articles and summarize the historical influence and certain fully xunzi's status in the Chinese history of literature.