Abstract

Western culture is rooted in the concept of leisure idyllic among the literary genre of poetic imagination, this idea that inspired the literature since ancient Greek poetry and aesthetics. The pastoral poetry of the European aesthetics is a very important example of the genre, but in the West but often because of the familiarity, but tend to neglect its long-term impact of Western culture, as well as the specific image. The idyllic shepherd, living in the Al-Kadi and gods similar to each other that they passed young, beautiful, charming love song image. This unique appearance with the older gods in ancient China, practitioners of the hermit image contrast. Compared to the "Dreyfus Nepalese and Chloe" and "Asi Theresa" implied idyllic concept of leisure, rural-style novel "Paul and Wei Ji" that shows a different kind of thinking; in idyllic ancient pagan flavor is no longer a source of aesthetic pleasure, and Saint Pierre's blog that small story in its narrative, the declaration is a kind of moral sentiments , a romantic point of view, beyond the expression of the Christian society, gender non-ideal point of view. The Western idealised vision of leisure is rooted in the pastoral genre, which has inspired poetry and aesthetics since the ancient Greeks. So familiar are the stereotypes of this genre that one tends to underestimate their lasting influence on the Western culture and its body image. Living in Arcadia, in close relations with divinities, the shepherds convey the attractive image of youth, beauty and sexual love. The specificity of these representations appear by contrast with the Chinese images of the Immortals, who look like old and studious hermits. Compared to Daphnis and Chloe and L'Astrée, Paul et Virginie offers an other revealing contrast: whereas the pagan pastoral is no more than a source of aesthetic pleasure, the story told by Bernardin de Saint Pierre claims to be a moral one, a Romantic version of the supra social and anti sexual Christian ideal