"Creating Writings In Appreciation Of Love": Research On Xunzi's Literary And Artistic Thoughts

The proposition on “establishing literary practices in accord with emotion” is the logical path for the evolution of Xunzi's literary and artistic thoughts.From this path,Xunzi constructed a literary theory system from “Evaluation of the emotion” to“adult” to “classical language” and finally to “establishing literary practices”.Different from Confucius and Mencius' s ethical and moral emotion,Xunzi first began to consider the “emotion” from the roots of human nature,and recognized and respected the natural “emotion” of human beings,and revealed the traits that the art of ritual and music originated from “emotion”,thus affirming the rationality of the emotional factors in it.However,although the natural “emotion” of human beings is simple,it does not have the purifying function of “self-beauty”.In the eyes of Xunzi,the “decoration” of the art of ritual and music on emotion can achieve the aesthetic situation of “The beauty of decoration”.In order to achieve it,Xunzi believes that the art of ritual and music established innate and acquired can decorate a man's natural“emotion” to make the gentleman's natural “emotion” artistically manifest,thus beautifying the gentleman's emotion.The decoration of the art of ritual and music on the gentleman's emotion uses the symbolic and fictional expressions,objectively showing the fascination of literary art.“The balance between emotion and language”is the vivid revealing and positioning of the relationship between “emotion” and“language”.The theory of “adult” and the literary and artistic character cast on the discussion of “emotion” in literature and art,highlighting the artistic accomplishment of the literary subject.The emphasis on the importance of “learning to adult”,the advocacy of the “Wang De” character and the admiration of personality of the gentleman highlight the importance that Xunzi attaches to the theory of “Li De”.In the investigation of personality of the gentleman and arguments of the gentleman,Xunzi believes that inner personality of the gentleman is the appearance of external character of words,thus deepening the understanding of the relationship between two.It could do Objectively prove that the theory of “The style is the men” is possibly been established.“classical language” is the language form chosen by Xunzi's literary works.“creating image” to decorate the language,citing “poetry” to decorate the language and the “classical language” practice of Fu and Chengxiang,which will be expressed to the fullest.The establishment of character and useful literature is the ultimate goal of Xunzi's literary thought.From the very beginning,Xunzi did notestablish the values of “art for art's sake”.On the contrary,The use of literature and art for politics has always been the value standard for Xunzi to judge “Establishing literary practices”.Through the interpretation of the classics and the practice of“Reporting and Literary Creation”,Xunzi reinforces the view that literature and art use for politics,and then criticizes Mozi's “non-music”,which reinforces this view of literature and art.Influenced by the inspiration of the theory of “Three Immortal Deeds”,Xunzi wrote his own works in his life,and went to ultimately immortality.