The Probe Into Lin Yutang’s Life’s Poeticizing Theory And The Thoughts Origin Of The Theory

As an aesthetic ideology,"Life’s poeticizing Theory", is a most profound life theoryproposed by Lin Yutang. From the perspective of text and culture, this paper tries to give a detailed analysis on the Lin Yutang’s Life Artistry Theory with the general background of1930s. The artistic pursuit of the realm of self personality and life in the cultural shock and conflicts has become Lin Yutang’s unique manner and performance in times of adversity and distress.Based on the researches and analysis by the former scholars, the author tries to explore Lin Yutang’s Life Artistry Theory from the cultural angle, aiming at giving a comprehensive and systematic study on the connotation and cause of this theory. This paper also attempts to analyze the life experience, social environment, his personal hobbies and temperament under the guide of social history theory to obtain an objective conclusion.This thesis consists of three parts:the first part introduces the inner connotation of artistic life. The mentality of "Artistic Life" is a view of life, which is based on the value of aesthestics or artistic spirit, and it is the combined reflection of Lin’s view of life and aesthestics. Artistic life contains three aspects, which are:the consciousness of life tragedy, feelings for humor and mind state of comfort,"the philosophy of moderate"; the second part explores the formation root of the artistry of life. If we want to understand someone, we need to understand the root of his/her idea, and what’s more, to analyze the reasons for his consciousness of tragedy, humor, comfort, The spirit of literature and "golden mean" from the perspective of the inspiration he received from Chinese traditional culture as well as western culture. All these could reveal the uniqueness of Lin’s view of life; the third part utilizes the method of comparison to compare Lin Yutang with domestic writers like Lu xuii, Zhou zuoren, furthermore, to find out his distinctive literary standpoint and its inspiration on current society.Lin Yutang is considered as a "complicated" and "contradictory" individual, therefore, we need to put his idea of artistic life under the background of the combination of both Chinese and Western culture and analyze it critically so as to make object judgement.