Comparative Of Literary Thought Between WenXinDiaoLong And The Three Yuan Brothers Of The Gong An School

WenXinDiaoLong was produced in Southern and Northern Dynasties and it has indelible vitality.So WenXinDiaoLong has a big influence on later literary creation and literary criticism.Before Ming and Qing Dynasties, people were not paied much attention to WenXinDiaoLong and Liu Xie.But in Ming and Qing Dynasties,people paied great attention to WenXinDiaoLong and did much extensive research.In Southern and Northern Dynasties,people and literature both were conscious.At this time,People created many literary works and literary world was very prosperous.WenXinDiaoLong absorbed previous views and proposed some innovative ideas.WenXinDiaoLong not only guided literature and literary criticism at that time,but also had a huge impact on later literature and literary criticism. Especially in Ming dynasty with vigorous development of literary theory,WenXinDiaoLong had imperceptibly effect on other school’s views,and became weapon of some school when they expressed their opinions.The late Ming dynasty is a very special time.In this time country was declined,but commercial economy is abnormal prosperous.The society was luxus and lecherous,and people changed their previous thoughts.And those changes reflected in the literature were the contradictions between the traditional retro school and innovatory school. The three Yuan brothers of the Gong An school were lived in this age and they proposed the theory of "Xingling".Although they were not live in same dynasty,but they have many Similar views in literature.Liu Xie thought that literature was an ongoing process, and it had to innovate so that can be lasting. In this process people should respect for emotion and nature,and especially emotion was literature’s life.The three brothers agree with these views.They also had the same advanced literature views,and they also paied attention to the relationship between emotion and nature in literature. Because of different perioed, there are important differences between WenXinDiaoLong and the three Yuan brothers of the Gong An school in literary thought.In a word, the three Yuan brothers of the Gong An school inherited from WenXinDiaoLong’s quintessence,and made interpretation of the times. Especially the "Xingling" theeory of Yuan Hongdao is very famous and "Xingling".The "Xingling" is first proposed by WenXinDiaoLong in the history of Chinese literary theory.So the three Yuan brothers of the Gong An school is the companion of Liu xie across the age.