The term refers to a state of mind in the process of literary and artistic creation. It suggests that the author, fully inspired by emotions, transcends the constraint of time and space, and enters into a state of free imagination or a special mood for literary and artistic creation, before producing a natural and beautiful work of literature or art, either in language or in imagery. This term was popularly used in literary and artistic theories of the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern dynasties. Liu Xie of the Southern Dynasties devoted one chapter especially to this term in The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons. With emphasis on the unique mental activity in literary and artistic creation, imaginative contemplation is different from other cognitive activities
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