“意境”是我国古典文论独创的一个概念,也是中国诗歌美学的一个核心问题。唐代的诗歌创作是无可比拟的巅峰时代,但论及诗歌意境理论方面,它则仅仅是一个诞生和发展期。从王昌龄起对于意境理论的提出到皎然的推进和最后司空图的相对完善可以说是一个完整的演进历程。 “Artistic conception ” is a concept originally created by our classical literary theory and also a core issue of Chinese poetic aesthetics. The poetry creation in the Tang Dynasty was an unparalleled peak period, but it was only a birth and development stage in the theory of the artistic conception of poetry. Starting from Wang Changling, the proposition of artistic conception to Jiaoran and the relative perfection of the final divisions can be a complete evolutionary process.