The Research On XuechengZhang' Style Criticism

Xuecheng Zhang is a outstanding literary and historical theorists in the mid-Qing Dynasty. He owned peculiar conception. His achievements on history, proof-reading science, literary criticism have had a far-reaching impact on future generations. To date, academia has deep and detailed research on his history and proof-reading science. The research about his literary thought and literary theory has become the rise of cultural criticism. However, research remains unsystematic state in the period, pending further excavation and systematic.The part of introduction is a brief description of the value of paper topics, significance and status of the current study.In this paper, from three aspects such as the theory of style, the kinds of criticism style, the criticism of the style of criticism, we carry out the study of the style of Zhang's criticism.In section first, summarizes Zhang's deep and rich theory of style which was discussed from four aspects that is classification of style, stylistic norms theory of style, style evolution. he think the classification of style should get back to the basics, be simple, refining and practical. He affirms the advantages of named the style according to name, opposes that discuss style according to the profile of article, promote that people should be understand the ancients intended when reading the ancient book. When he studies stylistic norms, he proposed regulatory requirements from the genre, language, style. He thinks that article owns its excuse thought, but it has not fixed regular. We discuss style about Xuecheng Zhang referred to the body style as the main study object, and on the age of culture and personality and author of the formation of the impact on style.The part about stylistic evolution of Zhang, we mainly discuss"push together on the upstream of the source of the style", then explore the article from his conception about"six classic book"and"style has been completed during the warring states period".In section two, Xuecheng Zhang's criticism and discussion of concrete literary style has been studied involving FU, poem, ancient prose, updated prose and biography. FU comes firstly, then followed by poem and prose. Mr. Zhang pays much attention to its origin, character and function when talking about FU. And emphasize on its character when it come to poem. Especially for poems about imago, trope and rhythm. Xuecheng Zhang put the observing the criticism of various style under the background of Qing Dynasty. And attach importance to comparing with peers in Qing dynasty. Ancient prose and updated prose,emphasize comparison and express it by instance. The part mainly hackles Mr. Zhang's theoretic and point out his request for biographical writing and assessment of biographical function and significance.Section three talking about Xuecheng Zhang's criticism on critical style. Firstly, briefly hackling the form and development of critical style. Secondly, using shihua and comment as the research support. exploring the origin, status and function of those two kinds of critical style with unique and national character in Chinese critical history. Zhang divides shihua into two categories that is"comment poetry referring relational things"and"comment poetry referring rhetoric and theory of writing". Especially focus on the latter. This paper discusses using the comment of Zhang on YuanMei's gardening poem as a critical example. Objectively view Mr. Zhang's criticism to YuanMei. also objectively response to Mr. zhang's critical attitude that a literary critic should have. On one hand,xuecheng Zhang conforms the comment has positive impact on the future generation, on the other hand, he downs the comment. The passage mainly use combined methods about history and discussion, not only tracks the origin intern of lengthways, but also makes deep comparison between different style interm of lateral direction; hope to offer a little reference for farther research on Xuecheng's criticism of style.