Journal of Hebei University(Philosophy and Social Science) ›› 2025, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (6): 54-64.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-6378.2025.06.006

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The “Creativity” of “Yi”:The “Xieyi” Concept in Su Shi’s Literary and Artistic Criticism and Its Philosophy of Creativity

LIU Guirong   

  1. Institute of Art Studies, Chinese National Academy of Arts, Beijing 100012, China
  • Received:2025-07-12 Published:2025-11-19

Abstract: Su Shis “Xieyi”concept is a concentrated embodiment of his literary and artistic criticism thought,running through various literary forms such as poetry and prose,calligraphy and painting,music and song,gardens and utensils.The “Yi” he “writes” is first based on the “self” of life,revealing the “true meaning” of the “self” in the coherence and integrity of literature and art,and at the same time,this “self” also has the “creativity”.Su Shis “Yi” is both the construction of “intention” and the deconstruction of “non-intention”.The “non-intention” of nature created presents a universe of “Creativity-Principle” and “Creativity-Yi”.The “Dao” is the essence of Su Shis artistic philosophy.The creativity of Dao as noumenon is the meaning of “Great Life” that Su Shi strives to express.This artistic world of “Dao as One” is manifested the Art and Dao as One,and the “Yi” of art is the “Daoyi”.The integration of art and all thingsinthe universeby the “Creativity”,the ultimate meaning of the “Daoyi” is the resting place of life,and the “No-mind” enables the “Daoyi” to be realized and illuminated.The philosophy of “Creativity” in Su Shis “Xieyi” depicts the present and the future,possessing the life spirit that transcends time and space.

Key words: Xieyi, self, non-intention, DaoYi

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