The Development Of Wuzhong Literature During The Period From The Middle Ming Dynasty To The Late Ming Dynasty

Content: Literature was flouring in several areas from the middle Ming Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty, especially in the Wuzhong area. This thesis is divided into four parts in order to do a preliminary research on the development of Wuzhong literature. The first part explores the rejuvenation of Wuzhong literature. There was a literary rejuvenation in the middle Ming Dynasty after the depression in the early Ming Dynasty. At that time there was a lot of famous writers 'and literary creation was also more prosperous than before. The second part explores the adjusting between Wuzhong and other areas. When lots of famous writers advocated the doctrine of "back to the ancients", Wuzhong literature became to get in touch with other kind of literatures in other areas. On the one hand, it tried to keep its own characteristic, on the other hand, it mobilized all positive factors to adjust to them. The third part explores Wuzhong's embracing attitude towards other areas in literature. In this period, the literary attitude of Wuzhong literati became riper and more open-minded. Most writers became to take an embracing attitude towards other literature. The fourth part explores the merging between Wuzhong and other areas in literature. In this period, the writers' state of mind was calm and stable. They paid more attention to individual character. After Gong'an writers' coming, this two kinds of different literature merged into nearly a whole one. In a word, from the development we can see that there was a very clear process of Wuzhong literature, that was rejuvenating, adjusting, embracing and merging.