Caigentan And Late Ming Trend Of Thought In Literature

Caigentan is a sketch set used in clear words in the late of Ming dynasty. In the1990s,its researching not only brought warmly to chase but also caused the people’s attention. Aboutthe title, author, version of the research has no new views. Moreover, according to the contentof its research, the author thinks that everyone has his own view.Since it is generally accepted that the writer of Caigentan is Hong Yingming, but somescholars believe that there has another person about the writer. So, the author firstly discussedthis problem in the study. Because of Hong Yingming’s life story are unknown and all kindsof biography material are missing records. For this reason, this study mainly from somesimilarities of literature works with Caigentan to be discussed. The late Ming dynasty is aperiod which system was destroyed and will go to perish, and the sketch in this periodrevealed true and visual some scholars’ mentality. Many aphorisms have in commonexpression and can prove the Caigentan as the product of the late Ming dynasty. According tothe preface of Caigentan and some limited resources, the author thinks that the writer ofCaigentan should be Hong Yingming. For the problem of its version and superadd limitedlevel and resources, the author just analyzes the different versions of the preface. Caigentan isa book about goodness, it has elegant language and secular language refined languagecompatible, its content including harmony attitude of life, the value of moral cultivationpursuit, avoiding being hurt in the way treat others life, etc.This book of its ideological content mainly analyzes from four aspects, such as pursuethe value of goodness, and overcome the problems in life, the pursuit of ideal personality andcomfortable life. Ordinary people do more good things, that’s because doing good can benefitthem and their sons, in the life to resist the temptation of all kinds, get along with person, theChoice of Companion must be carefully, then you can eliminate the evil deeds, preservationof energy. During the period of social disorder, late Ming dynasty is beginning to show signsof destruction, literati inevitably appear disillusioned dismal mood, Caigentan providespeople with the way to solve this problem, provides the solution to free the open-minded freeand easy state. Keep the habitat of moral, adhere to the inner moral ideal, stick to the doctrineof the mean, against the odd quarter alien, exquisite life skills, clear and achievements, this isCaigentan’s pursuit of the ideal personality. Caigentan consider natural as the scholar-official’s home. Confucian compare things to moral, Taoist through the natural lifefreely to chase the natural state, Zen comprehend life from naturally things, this is the searchfor inner peace of Caigentan. Caigentan includes Confucianism Taoism and Buddism, theleisurely lifestyle self-restraint ideal personality, show simple insipid interest of life.Caigentan lays in this great social background in the late Ming dynasty certainly with thecharacteristics of its structure. The author mainly combine the literature of the late Mingdynasty from the scholar’s contradiction and literary secularity this two aspects to analyze thecharacteristics of the late Ming dynasty literature, and apply Caigentan to be a proof. Duringthe period of rapid economic development, dark politics, thought the pursuit of liberation, andthe law of development of literature itself, the late Ming dynasty literature show new features.As the literary creative subject of the late Ming dynasty, scholar from reality and the gapbetween the ideal led to the contradiction between the literati mentality. The mentality of theliterates of the late Ming dynasty reflects their complicated and contradictory dual characters.To put it briefly, the spirit of individuality liberating and dissoluteness conflicts with therigidity of BaGu very fiercely. In order to make a living, they had no other choices. Thecontradiction between desert and indulgence in woman and song, and the contradictionbetween dissoluteness and depression always appear in their essays.Secularization is another important feature of essays in the late Ming dynasty, which ischiefly manifest in the width of its description objects, the closeness to life of its subjectmatters and the commonness of its language. The causes for the secularization of the thenessays stemmed from the change of the mental state of intellectuals in the late Ming dynastyunder the impact of the specific socio-politic climate, cultural trends of thoughts andeconomic milieu as well as from the reading taste of the townspeople stratum. After collapseof Ming, the later scholars of the late Ming dynasty literature attitude is different, in the Qingdynasty is critical, and in the1930s by Lin Yutang, leisurely and pursuit of highly evil humorliterati. The late Ming dynasty literature is a task which worthy to research deeply. The authoruse Caigentan for the template with slightly interpretation and reading in the late of Mingdynasty.