Abstract: “Diction polishing and Tao manifesting”is an important topic in the researches on Han Yu,however,many scholars have not paid enough attention to the specific path of “diction polishing and Tao manifesting”in Han Yu’s classical proses.“Diction polishing and Tao manifesting”has actually become an isolated theory of“diction polishing theory”or“rhetoric theory”.Based on the careful reading of Han Yu’s classical proses and combining the related theories,this paper conducts a specific analysis of the path generation of“diction polishing and Tao manifesting”in Han Yu’s classical proses,i.e.,how did Han Yu put forward the unified standard of literary and moral principles of“proportional rhetoric,combine goodness and beauty”,pursue the way that following the classics then creating classics as his words of“summarizing the essences of the Six Classics before composing”,criticize,inherit and surpass the parallel rhythmical proses and the “eight-legged essays”through the eight generations,and then become mellowed into success.This not only reversed the creative direction and aesthetic ideals of the articles of the Six Dynasties,but also established a new paradigm of prose creation after the Middle Tang Dynasty,highlighting Han Yu’s works and his actual creation process to reveal this path of comprehensive innovation of classical culture.

Key words: Han Yu, diction polishing and Tao manifesting, combining goodness and beauty, classical prose, path generation