自上世纪70年代末发表文学作品以来，曹文轩始终致力于书写醇香的童年记忆，咀嚼幽微的自然诗美，坚守体面的文学理想，雕刻普世的人类情怀，试图将内心涌流不息的对“追随永恒”的眷恋升华为人类最本真的生命意识。凭借《草房子》、《青铜葵花》、《第二世界》、《小说论》等著作，曹文轩成为中国儿童文学的一面旗帜。在2016年荣获“国际安徒生奖”以后，更是赢得了世界儿童文学的认可，在世界舞台上彰显了中国儿童文学的写作水准与艺术气质。 学术界关于曹文轩文学创作的研究成果丰富、翔实，但对其文学观念和学术理论关注较少，且缺乏系统性、深刻性。本论文以此为切入点，旨在详细梳理曹文轩文学理论的内在逻辑和理路，厘清其文学观念的思想源流和发展趋势，充分整合曹文轩新近出版、最具代表性的小说、散文、访谈、讲稿、绘本等，尝试对曹文轩整个理论观念和文学创作进行全面贯通和评述，并对曹文轩的理论特色和创作价值重新进行学术定位和研究反思，以期对中国儿童文学作家的自我修炼、中国儿童文学走向世界等提取出曹文轩的贡献和启示。 论文系统呈现曹文轩所秉持文学哲学观、文学史学观、文学艺术观、儿童文学观、小说创作观、文学批评观和阅读教育观等重要理论观念。其中，描绘出贯穿曹文轩文学创作和理论研究始终、与西方主流价值博弈的文学道路，即起点是“古典美学原则和精神”，过程是“古典与现代的交融”，结果是“现代意义上的存在和人性”。曹文轩正是通过在西方潮流中的“逆流涌动”， 涵养于中外名家的学术资源，对“轻”与“重”的文学风格反复揣度，进而选取了“以轻御重”的写作方法。在此基础上，曹文轩强化对“物理时间”、“精神时间”和“文学时间”的体认以及对“相对主义”和“绝对价值”的重构，最终选择追随文学的基本面。 与此同时，在整合主流观点的基础上，结合曹文轩获奖后“被消费”的文化现象，来探讨他文学的观念和作品的细节，期望通过创作与批评的良性循环，对曹文轩进行一次较为深刻的反思。 据此，通过对曹文轩整个文学道路、文学成就的简要回顾，并站在全文的格局下，牵引出一条明晰的曹文轩理论观念和文学创作的内在理路——“从对文学艺术思维的哲学观照——到对文学艺术发展的史学建构——到对文学艺术的虔诚回归——再延伸出其他重要理论”。曹文轩正是循着“从哲学，到史学，到文学”的学术积累，才有了“第二世界”的建立和对“古典的形而上”道路的追寻。

Since the publication of his literary works in the late 1970s, Cao Wenxuan has always been committed to writing the childhood memories of mellowness, chewing on the beauty of poetry, adhering to decent literary ideals, engraving universal human feelings, and trying to sublimate "endless pursuit" to the most real life consciousness of human beings. With works such as Grass House, Bronze and Sunflower, Second World, and Novel Theory, Cao Wenxuan has become a banner of Chinese children's literature. After winning " Hans Christian Andersen Award " in 2016, he has also won the recognition from circles the children's literature, highlighting the Chinese children's literature writing standards and artistic temperament on the world stage. Academic researches on Cao Wenxuan's literary creation have rich and detailed results, but they pay little attention to his literary ideas and academic theories, which lead to the lack of systematicness and profoundness. Taking this as an entry point, this thesis aims to elaborate the internal logic and the rationale of Cao Wenxuan's literary theory, clarify the ideological origins and development trend of its literary concept, and fully integrate the newly published and most representative novels, proses, interviews, lectures, picture books and other works by Cao Wenxuan to make a thorough comment on Cao Wenxuan's entire theoretical concept and literary creation. I tried to redefine and reconstruct Cao Wenxuan's creation value and theoretical features, hoping to extract Cao Wenxuan's greatest contribution and enlightenment to cultivate Chinese children's literature writers and their works. The thesis systematically presents Cao Wenxuan's important theoretical concepts such as philosophical view of literature, literary history, literary arts, children's literature, creative writing, literary criticism, and educational reading. I depicted the literary path that Cao Wenxuan follows, where the starting point is “classical aesthetic principles and spirits”, and the process is “combination of classical and modern”, and the destination is “modern sense of existence and humanity." This path that has been gambling with Western mainstream values along with his literary creation and theoretical research. It is the through the "surge of surging" of the western trend and in the academic conservation of famous Chinese and foreign scholars, Cao Wenxuan repeatedly described the literary style of "light" and "heavy", and chose the writing method of "using light to contrast weight". On this basis, Cao Wenxuan enhanced his deep understanding of “physical time”, “spiritual time” and “literary time”, and finally reconstructed “relativism” and “absolute value” in the pursuit of literary fundamentals. Meanwhile, on the basis of the integration of mainstream views, combined with Cao Wenxuan's “cultural phenomenon” of “being consumed” , I discussed the details of his ideas and texts, hoping that through the virtuous circle of creation and criticism, we could have a deep reflection on Cao Wenxuan. By the means of a brief review of Cao Wenxuan's entire literary path achievements and contribution, and standing in the context of the full text, I draws a clear internal path to Cao Wenxuan's literary creation and theoretical concept—a Philosophical View of Literary and Artistic Thinking - The Construction of History of the Development of Literature and Art- Religious Return to Literature and Art - Other Important Theories Extended." Cao Wenxuan followed the academic accumulation of “From Philosophy to History, and to Literature”, so that there are the establishment of the “second world” and the pursuit of the “classical metaphysical”.