On spirit in prose

spirit in prose is a central and entire concept in ancient prose theories.It plays a very important part in the process of prose creation,the structure of version,the accomplishment of personality of the writers,art skill and style.In the long process of development,spirit in prose has been perfected to be an independent theoretical system as CAO Pi,lIU Xie,HAN Yu,SU Zhe and LIU Dakui,the ancient literary critics did a series of exposition on it.This embodies the concept of entirety,universality and susceptibility.The writers noticed with writings,and this connection makes china ancient prose,especially commentang prose,to have life mechanism and art quality.