Abstract:
In response to the transformation of political culture in the North and the South Song Dynasty, the development of poetics in this historical period accordingly went through a transformation from “true character” with emphasis on the literary work to “intelligent enlightenment” with emphasis on the writer himself. This transformation started a revolutionary reconstruction of poetics. The reconstructed poetics was theorized with three dominant views, that is, the view of the poet as “stimulating the true experience”, the view of artistic aesthetics as “going beyond the poets himself and beyond the situation”, and the theory of writing as “improving techniques of writing by drawing upon the Tao”. The historical transformation of the poetics in the Nortth and the South Song Dynasty exerted a substantial influence on Chinese literature and literary theory with its source of inspiration, foundation of knowledge, orientation in theory and logical course.
