The Criticism of Liu Xizai's Eight-Legged Essay

Abstract

Liu Xizai was a famous scholar, educator and literary critic in the middle and late Qing dynasty. General Introduction to literature and art is a special work on the criticism of the eight-legged essay. It regards the eight-legged essay as an independent style, discusses its practice.Its creative criticism can be summed up into three aspects: "Tracing back to its source and textual research on literary style". "Make clear the idea and pay attention to the standard". "Rhetoric and brilliance". It not only embodies the"Simplicity" of scholars in the Qing dynasty, but also reveals the eight-legged essay criticism thought of respecting Confucian classics and combining art and Taoism in the middle and late Qing dynasty.