The theory of sympathy is also called the theory of telepathy. Zhong Rong raised the lyrical significance of poetry to a very high level in his book. For example, at the beginning of "A General Introduction to Poetry", it said: "The beast of Qi is touching, so it shakes its temperament and dances its various forms."
On the basis of predecessors' "sense of things", he extended the sympathetic relationship between heart and things, and the relationship between man and nature to social life, and put forward the "sympathetic theory" to discuss from the field of social life.