When Xun Yu Left, His Fragrance Still Remained On Where He Had Stayed:Study On Xun Yu’s Death In Anthropological Angle

Xun Yu, styled himself as Wen Ruo, was the chief adviser under the Cao Cao’s account in the last years of Eastern Han Dynasty, held the post of Shizhong of Han Dynasty, and chief of secretariat. After he died, he was awarded the polite name of Jing Marquis. Not only Xun Yu’s family background was famous, moreover, he had the collection of beautiful appearance and wisdom, as well as noble moral character. Xun Yu’s assistance played an crucial role in Cao Cao’s expedition of Unifying the north. As Xun Yu was in dispute with Cao Cao’s intention on substituting Han Dynasty and proclaiming himself as emperor, and finally died of melancholyThis article is based on rich historical data, restructuring Xun Yu’s history of life from the anthropology angle with emphasis on anthropology significance of Xun Yu’s death. The aim of this thesis is not to describe Xun Yu as a person, but to analyze him as an outstanding representative of literary intelligence group of Han Dynasty, in the prospective of group personality and individual personality. By analyzing the death and all sorts of historical phenomenon which occurred in Xun Yu’s life, the author has discovered the source of power of the literati and officialdom from the anthropology angle:the ceremony, the words and writing, and further discuss the nature of power by following the predecessors’fruit of wisdom.The literati officialdom are the China earliest intellectual social stratum, the author thought the intellectual community is the essence of Chinese culture and the key to the inheritance of national spirit. Describing the literary intelligent’s life of history of1800years ago is the origin of the author to reflect on the macroscopic questionof Chinese culture and national spirit.This article first discussed the life of history research technique from the anthropology discipline method angle which this article uses. Then, after introduced Xun Yu locates the time background, the union collection related literature material, elaborated his family background and his splendid life. Elaborated the Xun Yu old age and Cao Cao’s contradiction with emphasis, as well as how does Xun Yu melancholy and die. Finally, this article analyzed the literary intelligentsia from the anthropology angle of view to obtain the authority the origin.