Rhetoric Analysis To The Theory Of Advocating The “Zhi” And “Wen” From Yan Family Instructions

The theory of “wen” and “zhi” occupies an important position in the history of rhetoric Chinese. Since Confucius put forward “wenzhibinbin”, Zhuang Zi, Han Feizi, Liu An, Fan Ye, Liu Xie and so on have been put forward the theory of advocating the “zhi”, including the connotation of “wen” and “zhi”, the status of “wen” and “zhi”, the relationship between “wen” and “zhi” and so on. Yan Zhitui based on the thinking of predecessors, in according with the organism from the inside out of the order by analogy, expatiated the theory of advocating the “zhi”. He thought the article should be put the content in the first and then consider the form. The form of one literary work is determined by its content while it serves for expression the of the content in return. Combined with ideas of Yan Family Instructions, such as avoiding the difficulty of looking for an easy place to do, pursuit paradigm, mainly in meaning, both ancient and modern and so on, the theory of “wen” and “zhi” of Yan Zhitui is a kind of research result in a conscious sense, and it is the rhetoric theory in the true sense. Not only advocate the theory of advocating the “zhi” by Yan Zhitui, he He has put forward to the theory of combing the“wen” on the basis of inheritance to Confucius, Liu Xiang, and Liu Xie. Which formed the unified rhetoric opinion of advocating the “zhi” and combing the “wen”.The formation of the theory of “wen” and “zhi” of Yan Zhitui was influenced by the era background of the Wei-Jin and South-North Dynasties and Yan personal experience.Social reasons: including pay attention to “Ciqiao” for the social fashion and the spirit of Pragmatism in the Northern Dynasties.By the influence of traditional Confucian thoughts of Yan Zhitui, and the responsibility for the revitalization of the family are personal reasons.Although the rhetoric ideas of Yan Zhitui is classical rhetoric theory, but there are many similarities between the modern rhetorical theory proposed by Chen Wangdao. The theory of advocating the “zhi” and combing the “wen” of Yan Zhitui is similar to Chen Wangdao’s theory of theme situation theory, which all emphasize on text language expression i adapting to text content. Furthermore, the theory of advocating the “zhi” is closely linked with passive rhetoric theory by Chen Wangdao, both of them having put forward the importance of text content, and advocated that the text language can express the content of the text simplicity. There are some similarities between the theory of combing the“wen” and the positive rhetoric theory by Chen Wangdao,both of them focus on the beauty of the changes in the text language. In addition, sum up the corresponding rhetorical devices.