Ceramic Art and Literature:The Relationship between Pottery and Ancient Chinese Literary Theory

After Weijin dynasty in ancient China,a number of terms about pottery making were grafted to the field of literary criticism,and became language model and model in ancient Chinese literary criticism.It is a wonder to ancient Chinese literary criticism that pottery and literature invented something and borrowed terms from each other.Ancient literary critics,with the help of Tao,interpreted the unspeakable literary activity clearly,forming a critical discourse with rich Chinese characteristics.Tao,the basic mode of production of Chinese ancestors,has penetrated Chinese poetic thinking and become a tool to sharpen Chinese people's insight into the art world and to explore the artistic mysteries.With the help of the essays on ceramics,ancient Chinese literary theories show their exquisiteness,deepen the connotation of ancient literary theory construction,play an important role in such criticism.