The Superficial Discussion on Liu Xiang’s Literary Thoughts

In the period of the West Han, the literary thoughts had not been independent. But with the development of the literary creation, it grew up gradually. As a erudite Confucian scholar living at the end of the West Han, Liu Xiang showed clearly literary thoughts in his works, which based on the opinion of prevenient. According to the character and the function of the literary, he made more illumination; and he advocated that literary works were different from Jing Studies; at the same time, he also gived birth to the thoughts of women literature.