从“气”范畴看中国古代文论观念特色

Qi and the Characteristics of Ancient Chinese Literary Criticism

“气”作为一个美学和文学批评范畴的提出,突出的是中国古代文学那种人化的和生命化的创作特色,这实际上涉及中国古代艺术创造的一个根本,那就是有生气、有生命力的东西,总是最好的东西。以“气”论文,还突出表现了中国古人对文体风格、语言文字声律美的重视,体现出中国古人整体和谐、辨证流转的思维特征。从这些方面,亦可以看出中国古代文论与西方现代文论在价值观念上的重要差异。

Qi is an important category in aesthetics and literary criticism and stresses the unique characteristics of humanity and vitality in ancient Chinese literature. The concept of Qi involves the foundation of ancient Chinese art and literature, that is, life and vitality is always the best. Literary criticism based on Qi also pays more attention to style, linguistic beauty, rhythm and prosody, etc. and reflects the Chinese thinking style of harmony and dialectics. This shows a very important difference between ancient Chinese literary criticism and modem Western literary criticism.