A Rebel in Spirit and Paying Attention to Oneself and Following the Nature in Literature——On Liu Jiangshun's Literary Thought

Liu Jiangshun was an important literary critic and a famous poet in the earlier stage of the Yuan Dynasty. He was highly spoken of and his literary thought has been drawing more and more attention in literary criticism and research field. However, because of some researchers' unwareness of the rebelling spirit in his thought, they didn't give his literary thought an objective and exact evaluation. Thus a further research and discussion is in need. And so we may get a new perspective from his theories. We may say the spiritual core of his literary criticism is to pay attention to oneself and follow the nature.