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ion, which is involved in two aspects, one is the objective of images in life, the other is the ideal subjective creation of the poet, we call the former one as “jing”, and the later one as “yi”. Therefore, artistic conception is the unified entity of the two aspects. [5] Artistic conception is one of the most important aesthetic conceptions in ancient China, which can be traced back to Tang Dynasty. In his The Style of Poetry poet Wang Changlin firstly put forward artistic conception together with “物境”“情境” (two of three levels like artistic conception used to describe respectively the object and the circumstances of a poem).[6] Although he proposed the three levels together, he didn’t point out the relationship. Jiaoran, a poet and a monk as well, once pointed out the relations between Yi (image) and Jing (situation). He thought that the feelings of a reader to a poem start from its situation.[7] Liu Yuxi who carried on Jiaoran’s theory advanced that we can say in Tang Dynasty, the Aesthetic School---the leading school of poetry which analyzes poem with artistic conception, was formed.[8] And in Qing Dynasty, Wang Guowei gave a deeper research on the connotation and creation of artistic conception. As he says in his “Comments on ci Poetry”, “Not only can literature motivate the writer himself, but also it can touch the hearts of others.”[9] Mao Dun then thought the connotation of the literature translation is the transmission of the ideal condition .He said "the literature translation is to transmit the artistic ideal condition of the original work in another language and make reader be inspired equally, affected and get the beautiful feeling when they read the original work. [10] 1.2. The difficulties of the conveyance of artistic conception For many years, lots of Chinese scholars as well as foreign researchers put their effort to do the arduous work to translate classical Chinese poems into English. And among their works, there is no lack of excellent translation. As a matter of fact, just through the wonderful translation of some excellent translator, a lot of famous classical Chinese poems have won their world reputation. However, as a kind of artistic appreciation, we usually have a little pity that the translation of Chinese poetry still cannot express artistic conception when we read as the Chinese readers, lots of Chinese classical poems have lost their original romantic charm, complete information, three-dimensional effect, and the state that can lead the readers into a indefinite imagination. It is not surprised to see that many scholars consider the translation of Chinese ancient styled poetry to be an unsuccessful field so far. We can see that even if some translations display the content of poetry, they fail to transmit, interpret the mood, the image, and the situation of poetry. Because of the huge divergence between the East and the West, it is impossible to express completely the primary taste and artistic conception of Chinese poetry to every reader. The reason is that the different historical culture connotations and different habits and customs as well as different thinking methods are formed in the aspect of words and expressions. The renowned translator Mr. Yang Xianyi has said:" There are many other factors constituting certain meanings in original text .It is simply not impossible to transmit these meanings for the persons under different cultures. [11] For example: the Chinese readers have some associa