Study Of Chinese Classcial Literature Text Theory

Attention to the texts is the tradition of classical Chinese literary theory.Study of Chinese classical literary texts continued from the pre-Qin period to theend of the Qing dynasty. Generally speaking, China ancient literary theorists alsowere writers, and always look at the texts with the vision of the writer. This isvery different from the Western literary theorists who look at the text as aphilosophers or a linguist. Therefore, the Chinese classical text theory presented itsown features. We have insights classical Chinese text theory and found the logicand feels of its development.Text can be divided into logic and feels layer, images, and sound layer. Thetext style is the combination of the three things. Literary skills are cleverlycombined of the three things. Characters and plot are integration of the imagesand logic and feels layers. All in all, the form of the text pattern is the laws of logicand feels layers, images, sound layers, and their combination. The development ofthe literary texts theory is a history of logic and feels layer, images layer, soundlayer had been gradually discovered and their combination skills had beendiscovered from the pre-Qin Dynasty to end of the Qing Dynasty.During the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, three text layers were discovered oneby one. Pre-Qin scholars proposed "poem expressing ideal", it means that peoplenoted the importance of logic and feels layers in the poetry. In Han Dynasty peoplequest for colorful Images and they discovered that sound of the text is important.During the Wei, Jin and southern and Northern dynasties, the people deepenedunderstanding to three text stratification plane, and began a preliminary inquiry tothe combination of form and cooperate with the outcome of the three levels of text.Cao Pi, Lu Ji and Liu Xie noted text style, which is combination of three layers.Sound Theory in South QI explored the law of the sound layer in Chinese text.Not untill Tang Dynasties, few persons study on the relationships of imageslogic and feels in the text. The biggest theoretical result is about images containinglogic and feels in the text. In the Song dynasty, People begin comprehensive discussions of text creationand laws of text. They found that the objective existence of the laws of the text,and the quality of the text depends on the use of literary techniques. But there aresome literary texts wonderful without the literary techniques. No one knew thereason.Therefore, Ming dynasty literature theorist knew it. Literary techniques existto express content completely, new content need new form. So sticking to theprevious text techniques is not enough. With the development and prosperity ofdrama and novel, theory of the dramatic text and narrative text developed. Textlayers in Dramas and novels are more complex, because there are two kinds oflogic and feels, one kind belong to the writer, the other kind belongs to the roles.The Qing Dynasty is the time which the Chinese classical literaturesummarizes. The most important achievements are drama and fiction Text Theory.Jin Shengtan said major figures produce other characters and major story produceother stories in the dramatic texts. Jin Shengtan, Mao Zonggang, Zhang Daoshenand Zhi Yanzhai had made great achievements on characters and plot.All in all, the development of Chinese classic text theory is the history ofdiscussing the three text layers.