《文心雕龙》是中国南朝文学理论家刘勰所作的一部中国古代文论批评专著。由于该著作全面地反映了中国古代文学理论的民族传统,并在前人基础之上,自成体系,因此在中国美学和史学理论批评发展史上有极为重要的地位和作用。本文主要从以下四个方面分析刘勰作《文心雕龙》的创作动机。 “Wen Xin Diao Long” is a criticism of ancient Chinese literary criticism made by Liu Xie, a literary theorist in China’s Southern Dynasties. As the book comprehensively reflects the national tradition of ancient Chinese literary theory and is based on its predecessors, it has its own unique system. Therefore, it has an extremely important position and role in the history of the development of theoretical aesthetics of Chinese aesthetics and history. This article mainly analyzes the creative motivation of Liu Xie as “Literary Mind and Carving Dragon” from the following four aspects.