《神思》是刘勰《文心雕龙》中创作论的首篇,理论价值非常丰富,在《文心雕龙》中的地位举足轻重。作为一个中国古典美学范畴,专家学者对“神思”的内涵认识也颇见不同,或以为是艺术构思,或以为是艺术想象,或以为是创作灵感,不一而足。笔者则认为这些虽然各有道理,却也不免见之一隅。笔者曾对“神思”作了这样的界说:“‘神思’论可视为艺术创作思维的核心范畴。它可以包含狭义和广义两个层面:狭义是指创作出达于出神入化的 ”Spiritual Thought“ is the first piece of creation theory in Liu Xie’s ”Wen Xin Diao Long“. The theoretical value is very rich, and its position in ”Wen Xin Diao Long“ plays a decisive role. As a category of Chinese classical aesthetics, experts and scholars also have quite different understandings on the connotation of ”god thinking,“ or they think it is an idea of ​​art, or think of it as an artistic imagination, or as a creative inspiration. Although I think these are all reasonable, they still can not help but see the corner. The author has made such a definition of ”God thought “: ”Spiritualism " theory can be regarded as the core category of artistic creation thinking. It can contain narrow and broad two levels: narrow refers to the creation of up to superb