司空图在《与李生论诗书》中阐述“咸酸”之论，并颇为自贞地列举自作诗句以为示范；但在唐末、五代至北宋初叶，并未产生预期的影响。直至苏轼《司空图诗》、《书黄子思诗集后》论及此文，司空图诗作才屡见称引，“咸酸”之论与《二十四诗品》亦自此广为流传，影响巨大．司空图在文学批评史上的崇高地位从而得以确定。 Sikongtu elaborated the theory of “salicylic acid” in “The Book of Poems with Li Sheng” and gave a self-made list of self-possessed poems for demonstration. However, in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties to the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, it did not produce the expected effect. Until Su Shi’s “Sitan empty poem”, “After the book Huang Zi Si poem” on this article, Sikantu poems are often referred to cited, “acid” theory and “Twenty-four poems” has since been widely circulated, affecting huge. Sikhutu in literary criticism in the history of the high status and thus be identified.