袁枚的“天籁”说

On Sounds of Nature——Yuan Mei's Aesthetics

由人工修饰达到天工自然之美,袁枚以敏锐的眼光认识到天籁与人工之间是一种辨证的关系,如果天籁不来,则人力亦无可奈何,因此天籁是最终目的,但是天籁也必须从人工而求之,若无人工努力,天籁亦不易得。

Concluded from his polishing his art to native beauty sounds of nature as he named it, Yuan Mei regarded, by his keen judgement of beauty, the relation between the sounds of nature and the art was a kind of dialetics. That＇ s to say, the sound of nature is the terminal purpose Neither the art would be helplful if it didn＇ t befall, nor the sound of nature would be gained without the manpower.