Aesthetic psychology of the artistic conception of classical tang poems: An analysis based on cognitive fluency

Abstract

The relationship between aesthetic cognition and emotions has long been a research hotspot in aesthetic psychology of poems. Drawing on theories of aesthetic psychology and the psychology of poetry, this paper aims to explore the relationship between rhyming rules, cognitive fluency and the aesthetics of classical Tang poems. First, several fully rhymed classical Tang poems were selected, and some words were replaced to disrupt the rhyming. Both the original and modified poems were inputted into a program on E-prime 2.0 to test 50 college students, who were selected through a questionnaire survey on the interests in ancient poetry. The test results were analyzed to evaluate the influence of rhyming on the recognition of and response to classical Chinese Tang poems. The results show that rhyming enhances the aesthetic cognitive fluency of the subjects who show better cognitive fluency towards rhymed poems, reducing the mean response time and improving the aesthetic preference evaluation. The research results shed new light on the teaching and appreciation of ancient Chinese poems.