Abstract:
Lu Di introduces "elegance in the secular" as his aesthetic pursuit in poetics. His "minor poem" concept corresponds with the aesthetic idea in folk culture that "great daoism dwells in simplicity". His micro-elements in the "poem", such as the image, the artistic conception, the rhyme and the style, are secularized as "secular matters" "secular contexts" "popular rhyme" and "folk style"; but the superficially secular is only a premise to express feelings or a transition to elegance. Lu pursues "elegance in the secular" or to "change the secular into the elegant". He has created an elegant poetic atmosphere full of rational, moral and spiritual delight. His poetic style of "elegance in the secular" or "the harmonious co-existence of the elegant and the secular" shows the inheritance of poetic aesthetics in Song Dynasty and the development of Manchu Vulgar literature, hence a perfect fusion of Manchu and Han Literature.