A Discussion On Zheng Guanying's Note-taking Styled Novel--Tao Zai Zhi Guo

This article mainly discusses ZhengGuanYing's early novel writingTaoZaiZhiGuo is in note taking style.Through a thorough analysis on this piece of writing, I intend to find out the writer's achievements in novel writings and from it to complete the missing space of his work. Meanwhile I wish to provide reference and introduction towards ZhengGuanYing's political discussion, as well as his verses and poems studies etc. From the performance of the theme of the novel's and artistic technique, I proceed on all round analysis and deduction effortlessly. And discover the root of traditional culture f the theme of the novel .In order to demonstrate ZhengGuanYing's complete outlook. From the point of the content of the writing, it is full with the trend of traditional moral teaching, the ideas use Buddhist teaching of 'cause and result' as the base, it also include Taoist's thought of'JianAi' and TianZhi'. There are also promotion of Confucian's idea of Virtue' and 'righteousness', and also FaJia's concern of 'born evil' theory. The writing compose of a collection of thoughts of different school of philosophy, culture and ideas are deep and abundant.From novel writing techniques to consider the piece it belongs to note taking typed of short story format, using the innovative writing technique of'the spiritual andliving world are the same' through the supernatural world to judge our world, toexpose all the well known deeds among us and condemned them insensitively in order to achieve the purpose of clarifying the idea of the origin and correcting ordinary people's misunderstanding of the concept. Hence the whole piece is all about how the spiritual world affects the livings, in it almost every chapters are about gods, ghosts, and other spiritual entities. It seems superstitious and ridiculous on the surface. But as one read from the quotation of the preface "The establishment of laws and punishment is to persuade people to be good through the warning of possible punishment; still more and more crimes are committed. Even there are many amendments of our law; there are still many people getting away from the punishment so we had to rely on the justification from the supernatural being to make up the incompleteness of our laws." the writing's objective then is emerged.