This paper sets out on the theory of ”Liuguan” (Six Aspects) from the ”Wenxin diaolong” (The Mind of Literature and Carving Dragons) by Liu Xie, with the so-called: Aspect of ”Weiti (Genre and Style)”, Aspect of ”Zhici (Phrase Composition)”, Aspect of ”Tongbian (Change and Adaptation)”, Aspect of ”Qizheng (Nonconformity and Conformity)”, Aspect of ”Shiyi (Meaning of Topic Material and Classical Citations) and Aspect of ”Gongshang (Syllables)”, on the basis of such, in order to make appraisal on the record style essays of Su Zhe. To know that ”By way of genre and style, to set up the emotional contents of an article”, the characteristics of which are: its intentions are ambitious, highlighting its themes in twists and turns; either firstly with description then discussion or vice versa; there are hidden themes somewhere along the way to make corresponding to the whole article; Being good at using critical phrases, to set up unique styles and meanings on its own. On the aspect of ”Making examples with phrase compositions”, with its characteristics as: preference with addition of parallel sentences, and its philology and choice of words are without flamboyance; good at using antithesis to create momentum; fond of using metaphors and personification, making the images come alive; oftentimes with contrast on the breaks, to skillfully construct analogy or couplet for creating contour outlooks; fond of using parallelism sentences to make a start as well as a linkage to another. On the aspect of ”staying longer with changes and adaptation, with the features as: to change the cliche in the traditional descriptive articles; to change the approaches of how the dialogues go between the host and guest in the Chinese verses; to make imitation on the skills of how the ancient people describe and make composition on philology and their choice of words; to shape out a unique style that is as broad and pleasant as the ocean; to tone down life's bitterness with composure; to deepen its philosophy on the essence of literature. On the aspect of ”Holding one's views with conformity to overcome what might be awry”, the characteristics of which are: the sources of its thinking are elegant and accurate; composition as acceptable and down-to-earth; as continuance of justification for compositions of theories from Old Chinese Literature Movement during the period between Tang and Song Dynasties; with articles on the theory of education, to possess essence of reverence and rationalization. As to peculiarity of intentions, oddity of sentence making, eccentricity to state what one has been heard and told, as well as strangeness of how the descriptions can go far-reaching as well as full of stamina as broad as the ocean, all of which are motivating and admirable. On the aspect of ”Taking consideration of things to make classification on them”, its features are: mostly with emphasis to describe people and objects; fond of using good public servants, monasteries, Zen interpretations, as well as temples such as Tang, Ting, An and Yuan as its topic materials; oftentimes with recalls to things in the old times; prefer to cite classical works for discussing theories and presenting argumentations. On the aspect of ”Reading with intonation and expression by its performance on ”syllables”, its features are: being skillful at turns of tones and keys; good at using Changduanju (opera form of Chinese poetry) here and there; good at using intensive duanju (short poetry) for expressing one's anxiety inside; good at using phonetics, to show the rise and fall on one's emotions in the articles. On a whole, for the record style essays of Su Zhe, when looking at his performances on the aspects of ”Weiti (Genre and Style)”, ”Zhici (Phrase Composition)”, ”Tongbian(Change and Adaptation)”, ”Qizheng (Nonconformity and Conformity), ”Shiyi (Meaning of Topic Material and Classical Citations)” and ”Gongshang (Syllables)”, they are just superbly fitted, and are sufficiently enough as exemplary to study literary forms for the later generations.
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