WenXinDiaoLong And The QiLiang Literary Controversy

Accompanied by the awakening of literary self-consciousness, during QiLiang the new change awareness of literature become more prominent and the conflicts between old and new literature concepts have been increasing. While a series focus literary theory problems produced just as "The theory of Rhythm"," Distinctions Between Wen and Bi ",as well as " The Battle between Ancient and Modern style ", which were the landmark in the ancient literary literary history of our country. Those focal points almost come into every criticist's vision of Qi Liang, which causing there widely concern and heated debates, and thus setting off the scale of China's ancient literary theory in the history of a rare literary controversy. In this literary controversy, the criticists in Qi Liang Dynasties were divided on the needle front duel, and their vision which ware all showing the spirit of the era such as the individual freedom and liberation,as well as the highly artistic style of Wei-Jin Dynasties.As the the culmination literary theory of the Six Dynasties, "WenXinDiaoLong" appers under the background in the times of Qiliang literary controversy. It can be said that many exquisite literary theories and viewpoints in "WenXinDiaoLong" were inspired by the intense and active debates of the Qiliang literary controversy. Liu Xie'literay and artistic underlines everywhere when he was discussing the interpretation of these ideas. That is because leaving the cultural background of the Qi Liang literary debates, some theoretical issues in "WenXinDiaoLong" will not be able to initiate and interpet, even incomprehensible. This paper selected the three most intense focus and based on the existing research,while linking the full care in the times background of the Qi Liang literary controversy,try to explore the inherent relation between these problems.The study on the theory of rhythm in "WenXinDiaoLong" was the promote and innovation based on the tonal theory rules advocated by ShenYue which breadth and depth of its theoretical meaning is far better than the theory of ShenYue.On the one hand, LiuXie responded the theory of rhythm of ShenYue in WenXinDiaoLong; on the other hand, LiuXie makes a new scientific understanding of rhythm; he explored the origin to the Rhythm primitive, while through the analysis of ways to the realization of rhythm harmony and put forward a relatively broad application of the principles of sound law, which established an aesthetic ideals called " Rhythm Harmony "." Distinctions Between Wen and Bi " can be said to be an important symbol to the homologous occasion of the literary style of Qiliang Dynasties, and its exacerbated strengthen the discrimination of the concept of stylistic evolution, which has induced the struggle between ancient and modern style of Qiliang literary world. The clear-cut confrontation of the two camps push the struggle between ancient and modern style into extreme which fully demonstrate the fierce conflict between the different literary forms and styles, also promote the evolution from the ancient style to the modern style.When "WenXinDiaoLong" discuss these problems, on the one hand, it has trying to accept a compromise attitude; on the other hand, it is not ambiguous any more but stressing to control the modern by discrepting the ancient, which fully reflect the unique characteristics of "WenXinDiaoLong".It should be said, the academia has always attached great importance to the knowledge and research of the QiLiang's literary scene of "The theory of Rhythm "; "Distinctions Between Wen and Bi"; "The Battle between Ancient and Modern style"and other issues, but such studies as placing "WenXinDiaoLong" in the cultural background of Qiliang Literary Controversy and make a comprehensive survey of its understanding and interpretation impact on these controversial issues of the theoretical focus which also need to be further strengthened. In fact, when we try to research by placing "WenXinDiaoLong" in the cultural background of Qiliang Literary Controversy, a new landscape of Dragon-ology will be explanded.Whether "The theory of Rhythm"," Distinctions Between Wen and Bi ",or" The Battle between Ancient and Modern style ", those as the important theoretical problems as well as the insights on these issues in WenXinDiaoLong, the literary mind hidded in those questions which can be said to provide generous theory resources to the development of comtemporary literary theory and its also has deep significance to todays practice of literary creation as well as the development and improvement of literary theory.