The term means to accumulate as much as possible but to release a little at a time. This often refers to the process of scholarly research or artistic creation, in which one should first extensively absorb the knowledge and results of others to acquire a wealth of knowledge and lay a solid foundation. On this basis, one is engaged in further scholar…
Speech and writing come from feelings and thoughts. This concept is used by Liu Xie (465?-520? or 532? ) of the Southern Dynasties to explain the origin of literary creation in The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons. It suggests that feelings and thoughts are the sources of language and all literary creation as well. Only when imbued with t…
Literary flexibility means that one should respect the rules for writing poetry or prose but not be bound by them; one should encourage change and innovation. The opposite of literary flexibility is literary rigidity under whose influence the writer mechanically imitates the forms of established writers without innovation. One way to attain literary…