Cheng Minzheng Chronicle

Cheng Min-zheng was a big shot at the period of ChengHua and HongZhi of Ming dynasty, who acquired many accomplishments in the fields of Philology. Philosophy and Literature, which indicate considerably on the change of learned thought at that time.As a scholar of his age, Cheng Min-zheng idolized the collection and cleaned up of literary information. The illustrious masterworks , " MING WEN HENG " , " XIN AN WEN XIAN ZHI" and so on compiled by Cheng, which conserve a great deal of detailed first-hand information, possess of grand system, self-contained types and are provided with supernal academic value. Under the high-pressure political environment of early Ming dynasty, Cheng Min-zheng could stand on historical level and incarnate logical kernel of traditional Confucianism. All what he did reflected the desirability of changing political absurd factor. Cheng Min-zheng's philosophic thought attach most importance to combining Zhu and Lu's idea. The conciliation of the ideas of Cheng, Zhu and Lu wasn't a informal compromise, but a compatible study on Zhu and Lu's strongpoint. Cheng's antilogy put emphasis on mentalistic theory of Lu's idea, assisted stedfast below knowledge skill of Zhu's idea concerning the case of integrating Zhu and Lu's ideas, Cheng Min-zheng was as well as last a termination compositive person.In the Cheng's works, there are some distinguished literary that apotheosis personality, express genuine sensibility, observe social reality and sympathize the sufferings of people, which put profound influence on breaking official away from literature, pursuing the independency official concept of literature and honest expression of sensibility in literature.The thesis makes Cheng as the research object, and outlines the record of his events in the mode of chronicle, which acquaints the readers with the formation of Cheng's academic thought, hence, the politic idea and the whole tendency of literary development of his age integrally.