Excuse:Fang Yurun's Rhetoric Theory of Poetics

Fang Yurun,Qing Dynasty's Yunnan scholar,wrote The Origin of the Book of Songs,which has been considered as the most important works of the literary reading of the Book of Songs and occupies a very important position in Chinese traditional research.Many of Fang's precise and penetrating techniques of reading Book of Songs have been addressed by many other scholars,except the concept of EXCUSE.For Fang,Excuse is not only the important measure of finding the poet's original meanings,but also the important way of defining the boundary between poetry and history,of expanding the illocutionary meaning of poetry.Of course,the generalization of the use of excuse is also the defect of Fang's poetic theory.