From The "Yan's Family Instructions" To See The Integration Of Literary Thought In The Southern And Northern Dynasties

Yan's Family Instructions embody Yan Zhitui's unique understanding a of literary theory as a writer in the northern dynasty.It was in a special period from the northern dynasty to the Sui Dynasty,especially in the northern dynasty when literary criticism was extremely scarce.It is not common to see the works such as Yan's Family Instructions that used several chapters to systematically elaborate literary theories.Yan Zhitui was a man of letters and an educator who went from South to North and then from North to Sui Dynasty.Yan's Family Instructions was Yan Zhitui's summary of his own life experiences and expressed through the literary work.The thought presented in Yan's Family Instructions is more complicated.It included the literary style aspect,the literary function aspect as well as to writer's view aspect.In the latter part of the Northern Dynasty showed a tendency of fusion between the South and the north,which was the consensus of the intellectuals in the latter part of the northern and Chinese dynasties.It is also reflected in the Yan's Family Instructions.From the Yan's Family Instructions,we can see several aspects.