Zhang Pu Literature Thought

Zhang Pu ,who was known as the"Shilin leader in the south of the Yangtze River"by Zhang Dai, was a famous social activist, politician, academic and literary organizer of late Ming Dynasty. He was one of the important figures leading academic and literary culture change from the time of Tianqi to Chongzhen of Ming Dynasty. Under the guidance of the research method of literature thinking, the thesis puts literature thinking into focus and gives a thorough analysis on this subject for the first time, as follows:First, the paper talks with the organization of the learned society by Zhang Pu and the impact on literature in late Ming Dynasty and then give a deeper analysis on association theory and the main causes of Zhang Pu as the learned society leader . Next, it elaborates the significance of the new campaign during late Ming Dynasty Cultural Revolution , centered on compiling the text, in particular the compilation of"National List".Second, the thesis analyzes the causes and attitude of Zhang Pu's political participation, personality function of literature through detailed examination of political activity,"the close of learned society"on the specific content and the impact of ZhangPu's personality psychology. In spite of"Combination of three religions"of the late Ming Dynasty, ZhangPu respected saints, banned the heretical and insisted on the position of Confucianism, Utilitarianism and wrote for the mind of the main character. In spite of"forbidden of the Society of Classical Learning Restoration"to the formation of the playing safe concept, he has not stopped political activities. Such strong sentiments were reflected in the reality of ideological literature, the literature vigorously promoted social and political functions.The third, the paper discusses the relationship between Zhang Pu's literature thoughts and the academic activities. Its academic thinking includes four aspects: the person who read about Confucian classics supported Confucians; the person who studied history could tell wrong from right; the person who learned something about the past could see something through in the past; the person who studied something about nowadays could see the reality of the society. And its academic ideas includes four aspects: encyclopedic scholarship plan, practical purpose of learning, learning step from inherit to innovation and collectively scholarship form .By analysing the relationship between Zhang Pu's academic characteristics of its academic activities, on the Late Ming groups with the academic atmosphere, the study focuses on the concept and its literature in the ideological connotations back to the ancients.The fourth, the view of literary criticism and literary creative thinking in the practice of performance are explored in the thesis. And then it discusses Zhang Pu's main accomplishment of the literature criticism from the relationship between writers and works, moral and merits, learning, as well as the details. He pursuits a mixed-style from the aspect of talent, feeling, learning as well as intelligence, the angle of"text to drop the World"and "The article generation change", with criticism of the previous literature on the change-of literary history. And he talks about its classical Chinese literature"back-to ancients"creative thinking.The basic viewpoints in this paper are as follows: the core of Zhang Pu's literary concepts is the social function of poetry, including the following three aspects: correctional functions, political functions and lyric functions. The reason is that its form of retro-academic philosophy, a strong sense of political participation and retort to the style of poems and essays alienated social reality, which representatives by Gong'an School and Jingling School. Zhang Pu advocated in the literature with useful ideas. Its deficiency was the neglect on literary art forms and aesthetic characteristics, but Zhang Pu stressed that poems should have luxuriant content and bright style, on which has a positive meaning. Zhang Pu's literary ideas mark the Ming Dynasty to formalism and personality into the focus of literary trend of the decline of the Qing Dynasty and the direct opening of the world writing style in the beginning of Qing Dynasty.