"God"appears quite often in The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons.Liu Xie inherited the thought of the"God"from Lao Zhuang philosophy.Influenced by the trend of"debate on the form of God"in Wei and Jin Dynasties,Liu Xie endowed"God"with profound connotation,expanded the ambiguity,richness and depth of this category,and made"God"an important category in Chinese classical poetics.In the stage of literature generation,Liu Xie took supernatural"gods"as the description object of literature,and explained the"divine principles"as the law of literature.In the literary creation stage,Liu Xie analyzed the imagination of"traveling with gods and things"and the inspiration of"using gods as images",and emphasized the important role of human spirit in literary conception.In the acceptance of literature,Liu Xie put forward the"divine beauty"that highlights the natural beauty,and the"divine principle",which is based on emotion,deepens the aesthetic meaning of literature.The"God"category of The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons has produced a value that cannot be ignored for the later literary creation and literary theory.
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