LuRong Beans Garden Notes And The Belief And Culture Of The Prior Period Of Ming Dynasty

LuRong(1436～1494) lived in TaiCang in the prior period of Ming Dynasty.He was a genius,be famous when he was a young man.In 1466,when he was 31 years old,he passed the imperial examination and became an officer in the Bureau of Military of War.LuRong's official career was not all roses,he lived through three years of mourning for parents,twice.And then dismissed from office for his words.When LuRong was dying,he was only an ordinary people,not an officer.But LuRong stamped his name on The History Of The Ming Dynasty,because he was a poet and a confucian.Beans Garden Notes is the most important work of LuRong.Today,you can find it in Imperial Collection Of Four.Beans Garden Notes is shortness,mixed and disordered,but LuRong has a stricted writting attitude.He recorded the mass of commen people of Ming Dynasty,some of them supplement history of Ming Dynasty,some of them have fiction elements in it.But the current research of LuRong and the Beans Garden Notes are not enough,so,I wrote this essay.I want to introduce LuRong and his Beans Garden Notes, at the same time,introduce the belief and culutre of the prior period of Ming Dynasty.Over-Sacrifice,karma,the gate of horn,and the Stereotyped Writing,all of these could be found in my essay.