情立世界

Using Emotion to Built-up the World

汤显祖将“情”、“势”、“理”三者并列,确立三者为“乘天下之吉凶,决万物之成毁”的不可或缺的先在元素,这极大地提高了情感作为感性自然世界本根、始基的本体地位。情立世界是汤显祖美学思想的核心,它体现为以审美情感生灭万物,以自然灵气幻化万物,以意趣神色通变破格。

Using emotion to built-up the world is the core of Tang xian zu＇ s aesthetics thought. It embody in using appreciation of beautiful to born and destroy everything in the nature, using nature intelligent to make everything in the nature phantasmagoric transformation, using interest, charm and expression to make everything in the nature changing and making a rule.