A Brief Analysis on Lin Yutang’s Translation Aesthetics

As a famous literary scholar and translator, Lin Yutang has made great contributions to the development of Chinese literature and Chinese translation theory. For the first time, he clearly and systematically put forward the criterion of “beauty” in the Chinese translation field, advocated that “translation as a fine art”, and promoted the application of aesthetics in the field of translation. In Lin Yutang’s book On Translation, he put forward three standards of translation-the standard of faithfulness, the standard of smoothness and the standard of “beauty”. Based on the criterion of “beauty”, this paper introduces the translation aesthetics of different scholars, Lin Yutang’s translation aesthetics, and sums up the unique features of Lin Yutang’s translation aesthetics by combining Lin Yutang’s translation practice and the embodiment of his aesthetic translation.