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"historical Records" In The Family Culture

Posted on:2010-08-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L L LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360278479106Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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Content: Family is the starting point of Chinese traditional social ethics, whose cultural is the core of identity and responsibility, and it form a stable family value. Confucian ethics and values which derived from the family culture constitute the dominant Chinese traditional culture. Therefore, the family culture is the core of traditional Chinese culture. Family culture is based on the cultural form of blood family, whose existence and development have a close relationship with the family organization, but the two are not exactly the same. Family culture that rises from the material tense is the strength which can shake off the loneliness and the plight. It is the spirit of the family organization.In this paper, "Historical Records" of the family is a typical object which is related to the development of family culture and its characteristics. In order to study the history of the Han Dynasty and the period of the previous family, culture, analysis of various types of family culture as reflected in the family common and personality, as well as family formation and development of a culture of political, economic and social life and its impact on future generations.This article is divided into the following sections to examine the "Historical Records" of the family cultureThe first chapter of the family with the connotations of the definition of culture has defined it clearly. To "Historical Records", the author set Sima Qian's family culture as an example, the analysis of the family culture in the social background of the Han Dynasty, shows the ideal life of achieve glory by writing the history of the moral values, and the integrity Confucianism mainly thinking of the characteristics of the times.The Second Chapter provides analyses of cultural similarities of each family recorded in the "Historical Records", and sums up three aspects respectively of elements consisting of family culture, expressive forms of family culture, and reflective meanings and social psychology of family culture. Family culture is divided into the order of human relations, moral emotion, the three dimensions of values and ideals. External form of world governance based on filial piety, family financial situation in the rise and fall of its own responsibility to Liyan Ligong as the ideal life. Reflected from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the early Han Dynasty Confucianism major countries catch up, as well as the objective reality of the weak.The Third Chapter puts families in the "Historical Records" into 3 categories according to their positions in society: the rich and powerful family, who with family and general family. It also offers systematic and regular descriptions of each family culture through text analysis, extraction and comparison of the performance of various type of family cultural characteristics. The striking feature of this chapter is to illustrate the course of family heritage and deep cultural connotations of each family intuitively and in detail in a large amount of charts.Chapter IV dialectically analyzes the importance family culture in the "Historical Records" to the politics, economy, culture and society it reflected. Especially in the present, activities of many non-governmental organizations provide a new opportunity and relentless power for us to re-interpret the reality of family and cultural significance.
Keywords/Search Tags:Historical Records, Sima Qian, family culture
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