Ye Shengtao And WU Culture

As a part of Chinese regional culture,Wu culture has a unique cultural charm.Ye Shengtao,a famous scholar from SuZhou,has his own unique interpretation of Wu culture.Wu’s ecological and humanistic environment have cultivated his view of Wu culture.The distinctive cultural environment of the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River cultivated the delicate aesthetic taste of Ye Shengtao.His parents’words and deeds laid a foundation for his cultural personality in the childhood and also fostered his aesthetic awareness.In his association with teachers and friends,Ye Shengtao’s knowledge was enriched.And the vision is open.These help him form its basic understanding of Wu culture.With regarding to the characteristics of Wu culture,Ye Shengtao recognizes through daily life and appeals to the works.From the water village life of his records,we can see that people’s character of hardness and softness and their attachment to rural life in Wu.His taste of life reflects people’s elegant aesthetic preferences and different pursuits of life in Wu.In an age when cultures collided with each other,Ye Shengtao showed his views on traditional culture towards his attitude about traditional architectural art and Buddhist culture,it also showed the vitality of Wu culture from one side.As an intellectual elite,Ye Shengtao rationally discriminated and sublated the advantages and disadvantages of Wu culture,and constituted his cultural viewpoint.He advocated the use of excellent traditional elements to promote local social reforms;he promoted the essence of tradition,highlighted the personality of Suzhou society and eliminated cultural dross to stay the vitality of regional society.Since Ye Shengtao’s academic and cultural identity is diverse,when we discuss the relationship between Ye Shengtao and Wu Culture,we face the problem is that the historical data processing and observation perspective in the investigation of social history.This is also a challenge to make the problem fresh and new and result in some new ideas.