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Qi and the Characteristics of Ancient Chinese Literary Criticism

Mao Xuan-guo

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Qi is an important category in aesthetics and literary criticism and stresses the unique characteristics of humanity and vitality in ancient Chinese literature.The concept of Qi involves the foundation of ancient Chinese art and literature,that is,life and vitality is always the best. Literary criticism based on Qi also pays more attention to style,linguistic beauty,rhythm and prosody,etc.and reflects the Chinese thinking style of harmony and dialectics.This shows a very important difference between ancient Chinese literary criticism and modern Western literary criticism.

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Key concepts: Vitality, Criticism, Literary criticism, Sociological criticism, Harmony (color), Literature, Chinese literature, Dialectic