Li Yu’s Life View

Life view is people’s attitude and opinion for life. Life view affects people’s way of life, and then people form a fixed pattern of life. The purpose of this paper is to analyze Liyu’s the life and his attitude of life. Liyu experienced Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty. After he moved to Hangzhou, He formed the basic life view. He had formed a fixed pattern of life at this time. The paper mainly divided into the formation of Liyu life view, content and evaluation. And because life is a kind of attitude for life, the concept of life must be conflict with reality of life, so the author builds the chapter "Liyu’s life view conflicts with reality".Liyu had the shadow of the Confucian guard in his body. He attached great importance to the lusts and he also had liberation thoughts like Lizhi. Liyu’s life is affected by the age. It reflected life concept in the end of the Ming dynasty and the founding of the qing dynasty. In general with the development of the society, compared with the previous dynasty, realistic consciousness of scholars were stronger. They paid attention to pleasures and the spiritual needs. In addition, scholar’s social status and economic level had in Ming dynasty than Qing dynasty. The government strengthens the control of the literati. The author reveals literati life view.The first chapter is "Liyu’s life view formation background". The author discusses from the external environment and the social identity of Liyu. The external environment is mainly divided into two aspects. They are political and social environment. Scholar, farmers, craftsmen and officials obey the autocratic rule every dynasties. The thought that it against authoritarian rule began to appear in the Ming dynasty, such as paying attention to pleasure, friends, etc. It is the result of social development. And it form social fashion. Personal life impact the formation of the life view. the author mainly discusses Liyu’s two social identity. Liyu’s a scholar and a businessman The second chapter is "Liyu’s life view content". They are three aspects that they are "Pursueing life emotional appeal","yearning for city life" and "Paying for the family". In my opinion, Liyu want a comfortable life, family life in the bustling city. He have own requirements for basic necessities of life. Everyone want this life no matter in ancient times and now. But we have to consider Liyu’s social environment. Liyu have no money and official position. The third chapter is "Liyu life view conflict with reality". Liyu is very hard to sustain the life. It is the reality gap. First, it is without a stable social environment; the social appeal needs a lot of material support, he admits that he Pays attention to fame and wealth. He is controversial. The fourth chapter is "The evaluation about Liyu life view". According to China’s traditional culture, people look at the "virtue" for the evaluation of a person firstly.