Does the Poetry Standard in Traditional Chinese Literary Criticism Attach Importance to "Shi" and the Related Styles——Some Questions After Reading Chinese Poem and Chinese Painting by QIAN Zhong-shu

QIAN Zhong-shu's inference about the poetry standard in traditional Chinese literary criticism is only based on an implied false premise: all people respect DU Fu whose poems comply with the standard of emphasizing Shi,and hence regarding it as poetry standard of the entire traditional Chinese literary criticism.The inference seemed to be too one-sided and simple and easy to cause some doubts because it seemed that QIAN Zhong-shu intentionally or unintentionally overlooked and avoided the standard issue of DU Fu's poetry questioned by some literary critics after mid-Tang.There were real differences,conflicts and complexities about the poetry standard.At the same time,as a great scholar who knows both ancient and modern,he stressed that the standard of poetry is against the standard of painting in order to confirm the above inference.As for the discussion about YAN Yu and WANG Shi-zhen,it seems that QIAN even contradicted the basic facts of the traditional Chinese literary criticism history and there were some obvious simple bias.And all these have made people doubtful of his conclusion in his article.