On Yu Dafu’s Prologue Literary Criticism

Yu Dafu’s prologue literary criticism is divided into two parts: one for his own work and the other for other’s work.In the prologue for his own work,Yu Dafu often started from his own life experience and the last aim was his own emotion.The stream of his life and emotion follow naturally and fluently in turn.He often elaborated how the name of the work was deter-mined and told the reader his own bad fortune.In the prologue for the election of the essay in the new literature of good compan-ion edition,Yu Dafu often used comparison and wonderful simile while evaluating the writer and the paper.The language of it was graceful,classic,formal,modern and easy.