The Morality-based Spirit and the Ontological Sense of Chinese Literary Criticism

The morality-based spirit determines the value criticism and characterizes rationality of literary criticism in terms of morality,value and social ontology. With this spirit,the Chinese literary criticism views the literature from the perspective of the integrity of aesthetic and moral standards,which makes it different from the western style of literary criticism.The morality-based literary criticism runs through the whole development of and acts as the mainstream of Chinese literary criticism.It is also internalized to be the thought pattern and moral core of Chinese literary criticism.