First of all, there are different views on the historical development of artistic conception. For example, Liu Jiuxu divided the historical development process of artistic conception theory into three periods: gestation, emergence, development and formation. Xia,, Xue Fuxing, etc. "Artistic conception happened a long time ago. It has been going on for about 3000 years. This 3000-year history can be roughly divided into four periods: the first period is the gestation period and the initial period of artistic conception, which belongs to this period from pre-Qin to Han Dynasty; The second period is the conscious formation of artistic conception, which belongs to this period from the end of Han Dynasty to Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The third period, that is, the maturity and heyday of artistic conception, is the Tang and Song Dynasties; The fourth period is the development and continuation of artistic conception, which is the Yuan and Qing Dynasties. " "It is reasonable to divide summer into four parts. Chen Ming divided the history of artistic conception into foundation period, evolution period, maturity period and deepening period. Although the specific names are different, the corresponding periods and characteristics are generally consistent with Xia theory. Wu Jianmin believes that the theory of artistic conception in Ming and Qing Dynasties has matured, which is not only widely used in poetic theory, but also common in Ci, literary theory, painting theory and even novel and opera theory. Wang Guowei systematically summarized the long-standing theory of artistic conception. Xue Fuxing believes that artistic conception was born in the Tang Dynasty, followed by the foundation period of philosophical and aesthetic preparation, the consolidation period of artistic conception in the Song Dynasty, and the final completion period of artistic conception in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the artistic conception ended in Wang Guowei. ?
Secondly, there are different opinions about the time of artistic conception and the symbol of its establishment. Liu Jiuzhou regards "expressing ambition with poetry" as the pioneer of artistic conception theory, and he thinks that the concept of artistic conception is the symbol of artistic conception theory. It is believed that Tao, a poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was the first person to associate "human feelings" with "artistic conception", and Tao was also the forerunner to discover the aesthetic realm. Tao's poem "Building a house is under human conditions, but there is no sudden noise. ? This makes sense, I have to argue and forget. " The poem "Drinking" not only created the artistic conception of "picking chrysanthemums under the hedge", but also mentioned the concepts of "meaning" and "realm", which became the forerunner of the theory of "artistic conception". Ye Lang believes that "realm" as an aesthetic category marks the birth of artistic conception theory. Xia made a foot-foot analysis of bronze lotus cranes, square pots and other works of art in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the structural forms of some chapters in the Book of Songs, and thought that the fields of poetry, music and arts and crafts in the pre-Qin period had already possessed quite attractive artistic conception. It is necessary for him to distinguish the appearance of artistic conception from the appearance of artistic conception theory, because there are differences in academic circles. Some people don't distinguish this. The appearance of "artistic conception" as an art form is not the same as the presentation of "artistic conception" as a concept and the establishment of "artistic conception" as a theory or doctrine. ?
Thirdly, China's views and theories on ancient literature and art are often intertwined with philosophical thinking, politics, patriarchal clan system, human relations, region, category and other factors, which leads to vague concept categories and inevitable contradictions. On the one hand, it left a lot of room for future generations to interpret, on the other hand, it also caused many differences in the follow-up research. In the exploration of artistic conception, there is an emphasis on Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. For example, Zhang Wenxun thinks: "The mutual infiltration and blending of Confucianism and Buddhism is the main source of the formation of artistic conception theory." Some people focus on Zen. For example, at the end of his speech, Jason advocated to examine the source of the realm-artistic conception from the background of Buddhism. He believes: "The meaning of artistic conception is not so much the meaning of argument or image as the meaning of thinking opposite to the six-meaning root, which is the root of meaning."
Consciousness formed by action. In addition, concepts and categories similar to artistic conception, such as "realm", "realm", "landscape image", "image", "interest", "beyond the image", "beyond the taste", "scenery" and "meaning" are interpreted, quoted and mixed, which leads to the spread of complicated details and is full of confusion. ?
In addition, the development of artistic conception theory does not keep pace with the times in a linear order. If we elaborate many theories and viewpoints of previous generations in time, we may fall into the end of piling up materials. Or a beard and eyebrows, irrelevant. If you only intercept Xiaomi for a period of time or a certain genre, you will lose sight of one thing and lose sight of another. The classical theory of artistic conception is mainly poetic, intellectual and Zen, which is far from the theoretical discourse of logical concepts. How to make a historical textual research on the origin of artistic conception and explore its historical generation and semantic transformation is an extremely arduous task.