The Research Of Wang Shizhen’s Poetic Theory

Wang Shizhen is one of the important representatives of "Back-to-the-Ancients" Literal Movement in Ming Dynasty, who occupies an important position in the literary world of Ming Dynasty. This paper explores the concepts of Wang Shizhen’s poetic theory as the breakthrough point, which contains "brilliant thought", "style", "awareness", "law" and "emotion", then find out the intrinsic connection of Wang Shizhen’s poetic theory.The first chapter analyzes the "(literary) style theory". It mainly solves three problems:poets should learn the ancients or not, how to reconcile the relationship of "ancient" and "I" and point out the way of learning the ancient poetry, "(literary) style" is important, it appears the style of the poet and the wind of the poem. Good poets will regulate the "(literary) style" strictly and show a "high and ancient aesthetic style" in his poetry, this requires poets learning the ancient rules. In Wang Shizhen’s view, learning the ancients is a way that will promote the level of Ming Dynasty’s poetry. To reconcile the relationship of "ancient" and "I", poets should realize that "brilliant thought" is very important, it will born the "(literary) style", "(literary) style" just a tool to make the creation be successful, so in the creation, poets should adjust "brilliant thought" and "(literary) style" to the best. About how to learning the ancients, Wang Shizhen puts forward the view that poet should "learning to the best ancient poets in Han and Tang dynasty", he also advocates "learning to all the best ancient poets of all dynasties", in order to expand the range of "learning the ancient rules".The second chapter analyzes the "ideology and methodology theory". This chapter contains three dimensions:it determines the position of "ideology" and "methodology", solving the problem of how to reconcile "ideology" and "methodology", then makes out the way of using the poetic rules. Poetry writing is the interaction of the "ideology" and "methodology", it comes from the poets’ heart, then turns to a poem. The "methodology" is a specification, which regulates not only the form of words, sentences and texts, but also regulates the "ideology" of the poets. The "ideology" makes the poetry remarkable, and led the poetry to evolution. Learning the standard of "methodology" is one way to express the "ideology" better, in the process of poetry creating, poets should use the "methodology", try to create a state of "infinite nature", which will make the rules gone. To coordinate the "methodology" and the "ideology" to be the best state, poets should think deeply, after that he will get in the state of "enlightenment". Poets should realize that learning the "ancient rules" is learning the "law" instead of learning the outside. In the poetry creating, poets must make the ancient rules be his "law" and use it flexible.The third chapter analyzes the "emotion theory". The "emotion theory" analyzes the mental change of Wang Shizhen, which has impacted his poetics deeply. His emotion theory changes from the "temperament" to "true feelings". This chapter finds out that Wang Shizhen takes the "emotion" as the center of poetry creation. Uphold the view that poetry roots in people’s emotion, Wang Shizhen advocates that poets should be fully release his emotion. Wang Shizhen’s mind is changing with the time, so he began to emphasize the significance of the true feeling instead of the emotion, In his late life, he puts forward the "there is a true poetry where is a true poet", in this point of view, he became the first advocator of the "feeling". In the sense of "true me" and "true feeling", Wang Shizhen created a large number of "adaptive poetry". Poets will achieve a state of "calm natural realm" with the way of learning his heart.