The Concept of Yin and Yang and Ancient Literature

摘要

The relationship between the concept of Yin and Yang and ancient literature is rarely discussed by people currently. This paper makes an initial analysis of concept of Yin and Yang and ancient literature relationship from three aspects of combination, change and neutralization. In literature creation, the universal view of Yin and Yang lift, things having two and only two causes that ancient scholars focus on Pianli creation tendency, which is the deep cultural reason of ancient prose development and ancient literature language form generally antitheses. In literature change aspect, the natural change view of "things having two" and "only two" causes that ancient people take natural change to explain literature development change phenomenon, forming Liu Xie as the representative "articles changing and without losing normal state" literature development view. In literature art aesthetics aspect, Yin and Yang, Cliffside and auspicious fundamental theory causes ancient people to take "neutral" as the beauty phenomenon, making "neutral" beauty theory become the ancient aesthetics trend for thousands of years.