刘勰在公元六世纪初创作的《文心雕龙》,是中国古代比较系统化的文艺理论批评著作。它第一次对中国从先秦到晋宋千余年间的中古文学鉴赏理论进行了全面而系统的探求,在中国古代文论史上占有极其重要的地位。鲁迅先生曾将它和古希腊亚里士多德的《诗学》相提并论:“篇章既富,评骘自生,东则有 Liu Wen’s ”Literary Heart Carving Dragons“, which was created in the early 6th century, is a systematic criticism of literary theory in ancient China. For the first time, it conducted a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the ancient Chinese literature appreciation theory from the pre-Qin period to the Jin-Song period, occupying an extremely important position in the history of ancient Chinese literary theory. Mr. Lu Xun compared it to the ”poetics“ of Aristotle in ancient Greece: ”The chapter is rich,