Chinese Traditional Taoism Influence To Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang is a debatable author in the history of Chinese Modern Literature though hisliterature theory, his literature creative work and his life attitude fused together so as to aconsanguineous entia. The intrinsic reason to it is not his Christian belief, and not hisoccident life experience, but Chinese traditional Taoism. Taoism, inset deeply in hisspirit, influenced profoundly his literature, his belief and his life So, the begining of myarticle is the influence of the thought, then the literature, the concrete life at last.My article is divided into three sections. There are three parts in the first section. It isabout Taoism influence to Lin Yutang's thought. They include recongnizition research fromTaoism, absorption and creativity from Taoism, Christian belief from Taoism.The second section comprises four parts. They are literature thought, fictionwriting, prose and biography from Taoism.The third section is the influence to his life from Taoism. They comprise chiefly twoparts. They are the infection to his house and his life.Through this article, I try my best to sort out the thought of source between Lin Yutangand Taoism. But I must to appoint that Lin Yutang is an extremely complex research objectbecause his thought in his older years had changed several times on the premise that Taoismeffected him.In the word, He is a man comprise variance and repeating. I try my best to analyzeclearly to the influence from Taoism so as to the reader can understand my meanseasily. Upon that, I have a great difficult about the relation in Lin Yutang andConfucianism, and Buddhist, etc. Thus, it will damage the complexity about LinYutang. This is a big regret of my article.