Wenxin Diao Long Notes (Volume 1 and 2)

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Features: The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons, written by Liang E Xie, is one of the earliest and most complete masterpieces in the existing ancient Chinese literary criticism. After a long period of development in the Zhou, Qin, and Han dynasties, Chinese classical literature had accumulated rich creative experience and explored many theoretical aspects. During the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties periods, there was a new leap in creation, while theory entered a phase of conscious summarization of experience. Starting from the Jian'an era, numerous complete works of literary theory began to appear one after another. By the time of the Qi and Liang dynasties, The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons by E Xie emerged as the culmination of this development. This work consists of ten volumes and fifty chapters, which can be clearly divided into four parts: one, general theory; two, theories of literary genres; three, theories of creation; four, theories of appreciation, with an autographical preface titled Chronicles of the Work as the fiftieth chapter, summarizing the entire book. In this sense, The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is a work without successors. Today, as we critically inherit the legacy of Chinese classical literary theory, we naturally should study this work earnestly.