Only those who have played thousands of tunes can understand music, and those who have seen thousands of swords can understand weapons. Chinese word, this sentence comes from Liu Xie's "Wen Xin Diao Long·Zhiyin".

Play a thousand tunes and then the sound will dawn, watch a thousand swords and then recognize the weapon. The Chinese word comes from "Wen Xin Diao Long". It describes that one can understand music only after mastering many pieces of music, and one can understand how to identify swords only after observing many swords.

"The Literary Mind and the Carving of the Dragon" is a theoretically systematic, rigorously structured and detailed literary theory monograph written by Liu Xie (xié), a literary theorist of the Southern Dynasties in China. It was written between 501 and 502 AD. It is the first literary theory monograph in the history of Chinese literary theory criticism that has a strict system and is "big in scope but thoughtful in scope". Liu Xie's "Wen Xin Diao Long" is named after Huang Lao Taoist Huan Yuan's work "Qin". The interpretation of "Preface" says: "The husband's literary heart is the intention of writing. In the past Juanzi (Huanyuan)'s "Qin Xin", Wang Sun Qiaoxin, the heart is so beautiful, so he used it."

"Wen Xin Diao Long" ***10 volumes, 50 articles. Divided into upper and lower parts. 25 articles each. The whole book includes four important aspects.

The upper part, from "Yuan Dao" to "Bian Sao", is the outline of the book. The core of it is the three chapters of "Yuan Dao", "Zheng Sheng" and "Zong Jing". It is required that everything should be based on the Tao, be based on the saints, and be based on the scriptures.

The 20 articles from "Poetry of the Ming Dynasty" to "Secretary", focusing on the "Preface to the Essay", conduct research and evaluation on the origins of various literary styles, writers, and works one by one. In the "Essay" part that has verse as its object, the chapters such as "Poetry of the Ming Dynasty", "Yuefu" and "Quanfu" are more important; in the "Preface" part that has verse as its object, the chapters such as "Historical Biography" and "Zhu Zhuan" are more important. Chapters such as "Zi" and "Lunshuo" are of greater significance.

The lower part contains 20 articles from "Spiritual Thoughts" to "Objectives" ("Time Sequence" is not included), focusing on "analyzing the situation" and focusing on various aspects of the creative process. It is the theory of creation. Four chapters, including "Chronology", "Talent", "Zhiyin" and "Cheng Qi", are mainly about literary history and criticism and appreciation. These two parts in the lower part are the main essence of the book.

There are ***49 articles in the above four aspects, plus the final description of the author's motivation, attitude, and principles in writing this book, there are ***50 articles.