“文气”说综论

On spirit in prose

"气"是古代散文理论的一个中枢性的、整体性的概念。它在散文的创作过程、文本构成、作家的人格修养、艺术功力和风格等方面都具有极为重要的作用。"文气"说在漫长的发展过程中,经曹丕、刘勰、韩愈、苏辙、刘大等古代文论家的一系列论述,逐渐完善为一个独立的理论体系。以"气"论文,体现了古代文论整体性、普遍性、易感性观念。正是由于作家们注意到了作品中"文气"的贯注,从而使中国古代散文,尤其是议论散文具有了生命机制和艺术品质。

spirit in prose is a central and entire concept in ancient prose theories.It plays a very important part in the process of prose creation,the structure of version,the accomplishment of personality of the writers,art skill and style.In the long process of development,spirit in prose has been perfected to be an independent theoretical system as CAO Pi,lIU Xie,HAN Yu,SU Zhe and LIU Dakui,the ancient literary critics did a series of exposition on it.This embodies the concept of entirety,universality and susceptibility.The writers noticed with writings,and this connection makes china ancient prose,especially commentang prose,to have life mechanism and art quality.