Confucius' Literature Thought and Ancient Chinese Literature

Confucius' literature thought consists of five theories.The theory of the beautiful and the good starts the tradition of literal writing and criticism with political purposes in ancient China.The theory of literary language and content becomes an import criterion of literary criticism.From his theory of the mean,the gentle,the kind and implicit asthetic persuit is developed.The theory of poetry education proposes the reading guidance for readers.The theory of poetry is not only the origin of poetry education thought of confucians in Han Dynasty,but also the basis and theoretical core of it.