Zhong Rong advocated that nature should be the highest aesthetic principle in poetry creation in Nature.
The "natural English purport" advocates that poetry should be the natural expression of the poet's personality and emotion, and that poetry creation should focus on direct search and require natural rhyme. In fact, it emphasizes the natural beauty of expressing personality and emotion, that is, the beauty of personality, with the aim of advocating the true beauty of nature.
Second, the influence of the theory of "natural English aims to return"
In China's ancient thoughts before Wei and Jin Dynasties, the truly beautiful things were never external appearances, but things related to the essence of things. This kind of nature manifests itself as humanity and virtue in Confucianism, while it manifests itself as nature and nature in Taoism. Confucian aesthetics is a kind of humanity aesthetics. Confucianism summarizes human nature as the concretization of benevolence and benevolence. Around benevolence, Confucius put forward the ideas of filial piety, faithfulness, righteousness and loyalty. Around human nature, Mencius put forward a "four-sided mind": compassion, resignation, shame and evil, right and wrong. It can be seen that although Confucianism talks about human nature, it involves more moral and ethical feelings. Zhuangzi is an important representative of Taoism, and all his philosophical thoughts can be summarized as "returning to nature". This "nature" is not the nature outside people, but the nature of things (including people). Accordingly, Zhuangzi pointed out that "there is great beauty in heaven and earth without saying anything". He believes that beauty is revealed by the world itself, that is, beauty is the nature of all things, and the acquisition of this nature is "returning to nature", that is, living, thinking and acting according to human nature. How to return to nature? Zhuangzi believes that there should be no desire, ruthlessness, namelessness, no work, no existence, no ego, no existence, etc. It can be seen that although Zhuangzi put forward "the nature of nature", its essence is nothingness, that is, ruthlessness and asexuality. Although there was a lot of talk about temperament in Han dynasty, the theory of evil nature was still popular. They think that nature is yang, reason, benevolence and the expression of goodness. "Five natures"-benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith-are the generalization of feudal ethics. Emotion originated in Yin Qi, which is a manifestation of evil. "Six emotions"-joy, anger, sorrow, joy, love and evil, always induce greedy desires.
Zhong Rong's theory of "natural English purpose" is a kind of transcendence to predecessors. He endowed the traditional "nature" with new connotations. His "sex" is not a temperament bound by Confucian ethics, nor is it Zhuangzi's nothingness, and there is no prejudice against sex and emotion, but a free personality emotion that is not bound by nature. His emphasis on "natural English tenor" actually means that poetry is the natural beauty of expressing personal feelings.