Zhu Guangqian Early Literary Criticism

As a prominent aesthetician, Zhu's aesthetic achievements have been paid much attention in the world. However, literary criticism was also a studying subject of Zhu's concern about theory and the contribution is his exploration of literary criticism and the theory building.Trying to make a system study on Zhu's literary criticism, this paper deals with three items: Zhu's idea about the concept of appreciated and creative criticism, self-cultivation of main body of criticism and the methods of criticism. So his accomplishment and the enlightening role on the theory and practice of contemporary literary criticism can be fully understood .