“知言养气”与古代文论中的创作批评思想

"Understanding Others and Cultivating One's Own Qualities" and the Critical Ideas in Ancient Literary Writings

"知言养气"是孟子关于塑造道德品质的论断,"知言"与"养气"互为联系,密不可分。这一关于人格理想的观点对古代文论的创作批评有深远的影响,在"文气论"和创作论的理论方面,起到了积极的推动作用。

＂The greater the quality we have, the easier we can know others＇ words. ＂ This remark of Mengzi refers to an idea about the cultivation of man＇s merits,in which ＂knowing the words＂ and ＂cultivating the merits＂ have close relationship with each other. This idea had great influence on the literary style and literary thoeries of the ancient time.