Exploration Of Jiao Ran’s "Yi Jing" Theory

Jiao Ran is a famous poetic theorist in Tang Dynasty. He wrote “Shi Shi”,“ShiYi” and some other works about poetic, which make him play a decisive role inChinese literature theory history. Jiao Ran’s poetic theory seems to be complex, butimplied intrinsic system and logic.Influenced by confucianism, Taoism, Buddhismculture and enlighted by former theorists, he emphasized “YiJing”,regarded it as themost important aesthetic element of the poetry, leading his all poetic. Focusing on“Jing”, JiaoRan widly and deeply expound its features, put forward the concretemethods and principles to create “YiJing”, generalized nineteen styles of “YiJing”.Finally, he constructed a systematic, profound “YiJing” theory.However， the academic research on Jiao Ran’s “YiJing” theory is stillunsufficient. Some existing research failed to recognize its core status, some are justmake the simple explanation. This text aims to demonstrate “YiJing”’s core status inJiao Ran’s poetic. By detailed analysis, I make deep exploration on the produceconditions of Jiao Ran’s “YiJing” theory, the main contains and the influence of his“YiJing” theory,.The introduction part mainly illustrates the existing research on Jiao Ran’s“YiJjing” theory.The first chapter research on the produce conditions of Jiao Ran’s “YiJing” theory.Jiao Ran was influenced by confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism culture. These culturescontain a lot of factors about “YiJing” theory and lay a philosophical foundation ofJiao Ran’s “YiJing” theory. Secondly, the former theorists, especially LiuXie andWang Changling had had clear understanding about the relationship between “mind”and “object”,“feeling” and “scene”, which effected Jiao Ran directly. Thirdly, thepoets in DaLi period payed more attention to their personal feeling and were good at“YiJing” creation, promoting the formation of Jiao Ran’s “YiJing” theory.The second chapter research on the main contains of Jiao Ran’s “YiJing” theory.Analying the contain and the structure of “Shi Shi”, we obviously found that “Jing” isan important conception which dominate the other conceptions in Jiao Ran’s poetic.His “YiJing” theory contains features theory, creation theory and style theory. JiaoRan recognized the features of “fusion of feeling with the natural setting”,“false andtrue” and “with the meaning beyond the text”. He expounded detailed method tocreate “YiJing”. And he classified nineteen styles of “YiJing”, basing on thedifferences of their characteristic.The third chapter research on the influence of Jiao Ran’s “YiJing” theory. thistheory take a important part in Chinese literature theory history.,and influent the literature creation and theory development in the later age. Jiao Ran advocated to benew, unexpected, affecting the literature creation direction and aesthetic pursuit of“Han Meng poetry faction. Secondly, Jiao Ran started to use buddhistic phrases in hispoetic. Thirdly, Jiao Ran appreciated the poem with the meaning beyond the writtenwords, this poetry aesthetic pursuit is carried forward by many theorist in the latterage.