神会与妙悟──中国古代文论中的鉴赏心理学范畴

Mental Conception and Witty Words -Appreciative psychology in the literary comments of Ancient China

“神会”是指鉴赏心理中的直观体验，它是基于老庄直觉论之上的审美把握方式；“妙悟”说则是唐宋以后在禅宗影响下形成的审美方式；古代文论的鉴赏理论从神会走向妙悟，是随着唐代中叶特别是宋代以后，士大夫的审美心理走向淡泊宁静而形成的，它们鲜明地标志出中国古代文论中的鉴赏心理与西方文论迥异的直观浑朴之特性。

“Mental conception”, which is a way of aesthetic understanding based on Lao Zhuang's intuitionism, refers the intuitionistic experience in appreciative psychology. “Witticism” is an aesthetic way, which was formed after Tang and Song Dynasties under the influence of zen. The appreciation theories in ancient literary comments shifted from mental conception to witty words, following the changing process of scholars' aesthetic psychology in Mid-Tang Dynasty and especially after Song Dynasty. This shows that ancient China's appreciative psychology in literary comments is direct and simple, which is quite different from that of the Western psychology.