Zhou Zuoren And Chinese Seclusion Tradition

Zhou Zuoren is a famous "modern hermit" in the modern Chinese literature of history, a not-sure, endless character. He concentrated the full complexity of the modern traditional Chinese scholars and intellectuals. In the May Fourth era, he was a "youth mentor" and renowned in the literary world. But due to surrendering to the enemy during the anti-Japanese war, he became a desprise national traitor by compatriots. Ups and Downs in Zhou Zuoren's life, full of tragic, its complexity and depth must in no way inferior to Lu Xun.This paper mainly with traditional recluse culture in the background, analyze traditional deep spiritual relationship between Zhou Zuoren and seclusion. In this view of Zhou Zuoren's turning down after the May Fourth era, and the reason of becoming a traitor during the anti-Japanese war and focused on the root cause of his hermit tragedy.ChapterⅠ, introduction. Each of the two sections of text explain the significance and subjects of Zhou Zuoren's researches on the traditional culture and trends in recent years, raise the research purposes of this paper:analysis of seclusion culture in the development of modern, trend and nature to explore the fate of traditional culture in the face of modern challenges.ChapterⅡ, introduce the Chinese hermit culture, prepared the theory for the discussion on Zhou Zuoren's life later. Chinese seclusion culture is longstanding, had a profound impact on later generations of intellectuals. Although the hermit has been lost their existence social foundation in the modern era, its origin and development reflects the ancient intellectual path of their mind, it has important reference value to the study of modern intellectual journey. This article for the study of Zhou Zuoren, analyze the spirit links between his seclusion and Chinese seclusion tradition, it's good for us to comprehend the Chinese seclusion culture.ChapterⅢ, mainly from the angle of vertical overview by Zhou Zuoren's "traitor" to "hermit" life turning. From the period of May Fourth era "seaman" to a lonely hermit in his Ku Yu Zhai, Zhou Zuoren experienced the transformation from a positive spirit into the world to a negative hermit.The fourth chapter, from a horizontal perspective focuses on the hermit life of Zhou Zuoren after his seclusion. From his "victory"—human research and plant pest fish art prose writing, analyse his contradictional life status in the "crossroads tower". This seemingly leisure aesthetic of daily life, was actually lonely and depressional. After the War broke out, the lonely hermit was eventually forced out of the ivory tower, towards the dead end.The fifth chapter, explore the root causes of Zhou Zuoren's seclusion tragedy. As a generation of intellectuals in the transition period, Zhou Zuoren's seclusion not can be covered by the traditional seclusion culture. His seclusion includes a modern appeal, points to selfless care for universal life and human destiny, which has the unique modern values of Zhou Zuoren's seclusion. Zhou Zuoren's conflicts of tradition and modern has typical significance. Ancient traditions of seclusion in the raging tide of modernization were annihilated. Zhou Zuoren's generation intellectuals just in time overtook the fierce conflicts between traditional and modern era, they were in the double predicament of traditional and modern era, couldn't "relief the world" and also couldn't to be a hermit, eventually resulting in a scene of tragedy of modern hermit.The last chapter, conclusion. It is the process of social modernization, the old closed civil society was completely broken, hermits'finally living space was deprived, seclusion retire from the world was fundamentally impossible.Openness and pluralism of modern society are the source of ancient seclusion tradition to its dead end.