Abstract: The annotation of the piece of writing of Wu Se in Liu Xie’s The Literary Mind and the Carving of the Dragon in the modern view disagrees with the view that there “exists an error” in Wu Se’s positional layout; it holds the view that the present position of Wu Se implies the idea of juxtaposition between nature and society. The doctrine of “ in and yang , dismal and cheerful” put forth by Wu Se reveals and “isostructural correspondence” and the “sympathy of object and self” between the human psychological world and that of the nature; it also shows that natural scenery is one of the origins of literature. The present article holds that the 3 doctrines of “ yin and yang , dismal and cheerful”, “endless succession” and “sympathetic presents” can be taken as the starting point of “green ” literary review in ancient China.

Key words: Liu Xie’s The Literary Mind and the Carving of the Dragon, “ yin and yang, dismal and cheerful”, “green” literature