Dian Lun Thesis is a monograph of Cao Pi's literary theory criticism. Cao Pi evaluated writers such as Kong Rong, Chen Lin, RoyceWong, Xu Gan, Ruan Yu, Angelababy and Serina Liu.

First, "Dian Lun Paper"

Dian Lun Wen is the first literary monograph in the history of China's literary criticism, written by Cao Pi (Wei Wendi). Dian Lun is a collection of political, social, moral and cultural essays written by Wei Shizi in the late Jian 'an period. The whole book consists of many articles. Thesis is one of them.

Essays on Canon is one of the twenty articles written by Cao Pi, which is written in the form of "Zi" book and is a collection of Cao Pi's essays on a series of state affairs. But unfortunately, most of these 20 articles have been fragmented, leaving only broken chapters. Fortunately, the paper was selected by Xiao Tong in the Southern Dynasties into Selected Works of Zhaoming, and it was completely preserved.

Second, the' Dian Lun Paper' creative background

Before Jian 'an, literature was bound by Confucian classics and had almost no independent status. In the heyday of Han Fu, Cao Zhi, the younger brother of Cao Pi, was denounced by Yang Xiong as a "teenager carved by insects". Cao Zhi also thought: "The way of Ci Fu is not enough to promote righteousness and show the afterlife." This has begun to link writing articles with thinking about the self-worth of individual life.

Based on this, Cao Pi called on writers to follow the example of the ancient sages who "don't care about the world, keep quiet and don't think about recreation", and strive to change the current mental state of "being poor is afraid of cold and hunger, while being rich is greedy for pleasure", and cultivate one's morality with a super-utilitarian aesthetic mentality.

But here, Cao Pi endowed the language symbol "immortality" with brand-new practical and historical significance. Cao Pi also brought poetry and fu into the historical perspective of thinking about the value of literature itself, which fully showed his foresight and was also a profound embodiment of the literary tendency at that time.

The Literary Influence of Dian Lun

1 is a landmark work in the history of China literature.

Literature at the end of the Han dynasty has gradually separated from Confucian classics and become a major one. The prosperity of literature, especially the formation of "Jian 'an Literature", has developed literary criticism. Dian Lun Thesis is the earliest monograph of literary criticism in China, which comments on literature with a variety of styles and writers as the object.

2. Put forward the theory of immortal articles.

There is a classic saying in Dian Lun Wen that is widely circulated: it is a national event and an immortal cause to build an article. Therefore, the ancient authors entrusted themselves to calligraphy, and their opinions were based on articles. He didn't fake the words of history, nor did he rely on the trend of flying, but his fame was later autobiographical. "This sentence clearly reflects the Confucian point of view, rather than the Taoist concept of birth.