Prescriptive Significance of "Elegance" Doctrine in China's Traditional Aesthetics

According to the prescriptive significance of elegance doctrine,the study of ancient books is basis for literary creation and a link between the past and the present,because creators have to go through imitating classics and accumulating learning,absorb the prime of the forerunners,and thus enter the state of elegance in aesthetic and creative activities.It is the aesthetic spirit that attaches importance to historical cultural accumulation that forms the elegance doctrine in the elegance-popularity theory of China's aesthetics.