关键词: “雅”, 起源, 雅乐, 审美内涵, 评判标准

Abstract: “Ya” was born in the soil of pre-Qin culture, experiencing a long literary evolution, gradually developed into a kind of aesthetic tendency and a standard of literature evaluation. As a category of ancient Chinese literature, the aesthetic connotation of “Ya” was breed from the description of ancient music. Under the influence of specific culture, “Ya” changed from the Book of Songs cultural inheritance, literary aesthetic, creative pursuit and the development of literature itself to the field of literature evaluation, possessing rich aesthetic implication and forming a set of effective evaluation criteria to the literature of “Ya”.

Key words: “Ya”, origin, court music, aesthetic connotation, evaluation criteria