On the Theoretical Achievement and Lts' Position in Traditional Poetry of "Bi Xing" in Wen Xin Diao Long

Chinese ancient poets attach importance to the use of bi xing,and the doctrines about this device are all in line with the strain of Shi Jing,Bi xing is significant as a figurative representation as well as a way of eulogizing and ridiculing.Though there had been quite a few interpretations of bi xing since the Han Dynasty,it was the chapter of Bi Xing in Wen Xin Diao Long that can be called a monograph.The theories of explicit implicitness,moral implication,expression of emotions and revelation through comparison cover all the aspects of the origin,meaning,way of thinking,and artistic expression of bi xing.In particular,the theory about the indirect artistic expression through objects is a major theoretical contribution to traditional poetics.