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Conflict And Harmony - The Golden Generation Of Cultural Changes

Posted on:2009-01-29Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X S LongFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360272494661Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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China is a multi-ethnic integrating country which takes the Han tribal as the main body. In the course of this generation, there are constant collision and integration between the national culture. In Chin Dynasty, It is worth studying the conflict and integration between Central Plain culture and the Jurchen culture. The evolution between the Han culture and the Jurchen culture is the core of Chin Dynasty cultural change. Therefore, this paper mainly discusses the relationship between Han culture and Jurchen culture and wholly analyses the Chin culture.A kind of culture conflicting with the foreign culture is that the nature of its traditional culture Contradicts with the characteristic of foreign civilization. The inherent characteristic of each culture often determines its attitude toward foreign culture, and often has impact on the later cultural process. The Jurchen original culture has characteristic of absorption, coordination, variability and fight spirit.Early in the Chin Dynasty there was a movement that Jurchen culture assimilated Han culture. But the characteristic of the Jurchen cultural absorption promoted Jurchen people to absorb the Han culture extensively. The scholars of the Han nationality also had the attitude of refusing the Jurchen culture. Later because of the change of Chin Dynasty policy on the Han scholars treatment and other specific reasons, the majority of Han scholars became the backbone of Chin pre-cultural construction. They made an indelible contribution to the integration between Han culture and Jurchen culture.A culture accepts and absorbs another culture firstly resulting in the cultural internal conflict. This internal debate and struggle of culture often intertwine with political and economic interests. The results of the internal conflict decide the fate of a foreign culture. Jurchen aristocracy split into the central bureaucratic group including Emperor His-tsung, Tsung relatives, Prince of Hai-ling, and the local military and political group Camp including Tsung-han, Ta-lan and so on. Their conflict is not only political, historical phenomenon, but also a cultural phenomenon. Finally, the bureaucratic group was a victory which decided the Jurchen Dynasty culture change from Jurchen traditional culture to Han culture..Emperor His-tsung and Prince of Hai-ling adored Han culture and desired to achieve a comprehensive Han culture. However, the process of culture was not smooth and linear. As the conflict between traditional culture and foreign culture, the process often fluctuated or even "countercurrent."Emperor Shih-tsung took the integrated approach of protecting the Jurchen culture and continuing Han culture. On the one hand, pursuing the protection of the Jurchen cultural policy; on the other hand, vigorously promoting the construction of Han culture. Both the dual cultural policy was proceeded. His successor Emperor Chang-tsung inherited this cultural policy.Later in Chin Dynasty, the Jurchen culture integrated with Han culture unprecedently and various systems were similar to that in the central plain. Jurchen people's Han culture cultivation were also similar to most of the Han scholars. Although Jurchen rulers still had ethnic discrimination and prejudice and did not trust the Han people, in order to safeguard the interests and retain Jurchen culture, all meng-an mou-ko people in north of the Yellow River would relocate to south area. This not only accelerate the demise of the Chin Dynasty, also exacerbated the conflict between Jurchen people and Han people, deepening the conflict between Jurchen culture and Han culture.After southern crossing, scholars considered the reasons that Chin Dynasty was from rise to fall is the luxury of Zhang-tsung Dynasty. So they targeted the sharp literary style which was popular in Zhang-tsung Dynasty. They advocated odd ancient literature and elegant poetry. The political environment in later Chin Dynasty triggered a literary style change. Since different creative subjects and life experiences, different specific ways of retro-innovation and style of aesthetics pursuing, literature is divided into two groups. First, one group included Chao Ping wen, Yuan Hao wen, and other representatives of the weight of artificial support, and advocacy honesty beauty, and the other group included Li Chin-shu, Li Tian-ying and other representatives of the re-gifted, the main division heart, the pursuit of dangerous strange beauty.From the history of Chin Dynasty cultural change, two conclusions are drawn. First, the process of national development is from tribal to the nation of regime, finally to cultural nation. Only to the third stage, we can say that the Chin Dynasty culture and Jurchen culture truly become an integral part of Chinese culture. Second, the conflicting and integrating process between two cultures is the two cultures want to assimilate each other, but in fact, assimilation will not succeed in the end. Therefore, after the failure of assimilation, the two cultures choose integration and mutual adjustment, the cycle repeated and spiral. Chin Dynasty cultural change is an integrating process between Jurchen culture and Chinese culture. Finally, a Chinese culture complex is formed which takes Han culture as the main body and other multi-cultural coexistence.
Keywords/Search Tags:Jurchen Culture, Han Culture, Conflict, Integration, Cultural Change
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