《神思》主要是论述和探讨作家创作构思时的艺术想象问题。在文章开头,刘勰就给“神思”这一术语下了如下定义:“形在江海之上,心存魏阙之下。神思之谓也。”“神思”一词,最早是由晋宋之际的画家宗炳,在他的《画山水序》中提出这一概念,后来晋人陆机在其名篇《文赋》中对艺术思维和想象的特点也做了详细的描述。 “Spiritual thinking” mainly discusses and discusses the artistic imagination of writers when they create ideas. At the beginning of the article, Liu Yong gave the following definition of the term “god thinking,” as follows: “The shape is above the sea of ​​the sea and is under the mentality of Wei Que. Zong Bing, an artist at the time of the Jin and Song dynasties, put forward this concept in his ”Painting Landscape“, and later Jin Lu made a detailed account of the characteristics of artistic thinking and imagination in his famous article ”Wen Fu" description.