Research On The Enlightenment Thought Of The Legend Of The Hero And The Heroine

The Legend of the Hero and the Heroine was written by the Manchu author Wen Kang.Taking Confucian thoughts as the core,the author combined the historical background and their family fate,and depicted a picture of the ideal common customs.This book contains profound thoughts of the litterateur about moral ethics,cultivation effect,etc.On the premise of careful reading of this book,the author of this paper carried a research on the cultivation ideas in this book mainly from following several aspects.The first chapter mainly analyzes connotation of the cultivation ideas of The Legend of the Hero and the Heroine from social morality,family ethics,personal accomplishment and religious faith.Social morality cultivation ideas express in three fields: righteousness and fidelity in the official fairs;officials are loyal to the emperor and patriotic;common people faithfully serve their lords.Family ethics takes "benevolence" and "harmony" as the principle.Meanwhile family ethics considers filial piety and fraternal duty as the spirit of the cultivation ideas of the family ethics,and emphasizes the characteristics of the cultivation ideas of the family ethics by means of individual virtues and the behaviors of restraining themselves.Personal accomplishment mainly reflects in the chastity idea,family love,relationship and friendship.Religious faith respects in karma thoughts,worship of the gods and the ancestors,the litterateur regulates common people’s ideology by the religious faith.The second chapter conveys the cultivation thoughts.The litterateur introduces them through the chivalrous men,good-neighbors and social traditions transformation.Therefore,they conveys traditional Chinese moral quality.The chivalrous thoughts are expressed through hero and chivalry,charity and justice.The human concepts are interpreted through helping other people;besides,the thoughts of etiquette and custom are introduced through the marriage etiquette and custom,funeral customs.The third chapter is about the enlightenment to modern society.This book plays an important role in the process of building the social morality,harmonious family and harmonious interpersonal relationship.Social morality expresses in keeping incorruptible and upright as an officer,and in remaining honest as a common people.In the process of building harmonious family people should respect the old and cherish the young,maintain that both men and women are born equal and keep marital peace.In the respect of interpersonal relationship,people need to treat others with courtesy,sincerely build a harmonious interpersonal relationship.Last part is conclusion,which states enlightenment of being loyal and kind.This book reflects the ideological inclusiveness and openness,and it also helps the modern social moral education and constructs family and social relationship.