立意,是指文章中心思想或主题的提炼和确定。譬如,我们有感于某人某事某物,展纸落笔写一篇记叙文,把自己的思想感受、看法告诉读者,这里表现出来的思想就是文章所立之“意”,或说所确定的中心。写文章的人都看重“立意”,为什么呢?清代王夫之《姜斋诗话》里用了个很恰当的比喻,说明“意”在文章中的地位和作用。他说:“无论诗歌或长行文字,俱以意为主。意犹帅也。无帅之兵,谓之乌合。”文章中心如同一军统帅。文章没有中心,犹士兵没有指挥。什么材料的取舍,结构的安排,什么表现手法的确定,词句的选用等等,都失去了根基和依托而成 Conception refers to the refinement and determination of the article’s central idea or theme. For example, we feel something in someone’s slogan, write a narrative text, and tell our readers our own thoughts and feelings. The idea expressed here is the “idea” established by the article, or it is determined. center. Everyone who writes an article pays much attention to “conceiving”. Why is it? In “The Story of Jiang Zhai” in Wang Fuzhi’s poetry in the Qing Dynasty, he used a very appropriate metaphor to explain the position and role of “idea” in the article. He said: “Either poetry or a long line of text, both are intended to be the main thing. They are also handsome and handsome. No handsome soldiers, that is, Wuqi.” The article center is the same military commander. The article did not have a center. The soldiers did not command. What kind of material choices, arrangements of structures, the determination of what methods of expression, the choice of words, etc., have lost their foundation and support.