Theoretic Review of Yuan Hongdao's Poetic Prose at Earlier Period

Yuan Hongdao was one of the leaders of the literature reformation in late Ming Dynasty.The Gong An school takes him as the core opposes to the seven-person school's claim of returning to the ancient,and urges the literature concept expressing individual temperament,despite the established criteriar.The earlier period prose theory of Yuan Hongdao is one of the important part of his literary theory.One is the opposition of mimetism and opinion of reform.The other is expressing individual temperament,despite the established criteriar.