Abstract:

According to Confucius, the odes can stimulate one's emotions, broaden one's observation, enlarge one's fellowship, and express one's grievances. Wang Fuzhi expounded this idea with some fresh arguments, claiming that the "emotion" was essential, and that poetry could mold a person's temperament and soul, educate a person, and help a person to change, by means of abundant poetic emotions and tender artistic expressions.

Key words: emotion, mold a person's, temperament, tender