A Study On Li Zhiyi’s Late-life Mentality

Li Zhiyi was a famous scholar in the late Northern Song Dynasty.Most of Li Zhiyi’s extant works were written when he was exiled to Dangtu County in his later years,which recorded his changes of thought and mentality in his later years.Although these works have become the main records of Li Zhiyi’s mental state in his old age,his mental state in his old age is not limited to his old age,but has experienced a long process of development and crossed the age stage in the psychological level.The development of Li Zhiyi’s late twilight mentality can be divided into five stages,starting from the early days of his official career,developing in the yuan you period when he was making friends with Su Shi and Su men,forming in the period of his encounter with relegation,enriching and deepening after being demoted at the end of his life,and continued to evolve with the last two decades or so of bleak evening scenery.Its delicate,rich and complete presentation can be regarded as the representative of the late-declining mentality of the Northern Song Dynasty Literati.In the aspect of behavior and psychological performance,Li Zhiyi’s late-in-life state of mind has the following unique performance: The change of self-identity,the concern for after-death affairs,the tendency of self-abasement and the deep concern for self-heart.Looking at Li Zhiyi from the literary history of the Northern Song Dynasty,his late mental state as a scholar-bureaucrat and scholar-official of the middle and lower classes was highlighted.Compared with Su Shi and Huang Tingjian,Li’s twilight mentality is characterized by mediocrity.The mentality of late in life caused a long period of trouble for them,showing more fluctuations,the sense of decline is more strong,so it can more representative of the Northern Song Dynasty scholar-bureaucrats mentality.Li Zhiyi’s late-in-life mentality appears in the literature writing,in the performance technique,uses the late-in-life image and the allusion to express.In the aspect of realistic depiction,it describes the physical condition and living condition of the late sunset.In the ideological and emotional aspects,his writing of the perception of time and thinking of life,as well as the old age of the state of the world feeling and understanding.It can be said that Li Zhiyi’s state of mind in his later years in his literary works to obtain a real,detailed and comprehensive writing.The formation of Li Zhiyi’s late mentality was influenced by the social and political environment of Party struggle in the Song Dynasty,the thought of Buddhism and Taoism under the coexistence of three religions,the mentality of the literati in the age of introspecting and introspecting,and his own experience and ideological characteristics.And Li Zhiyi’s late writing provides a basis for showing the living state of the late scholar,studying the psychology of the late scholar and distinguishing other characteristics of the mentality of the late scholar.From the point of view of late twilight mentality,Li Zhiyi’s life and deeds can be interpreted more carefully,and his theory of “Personality transformation”can also be re-analyzed.His late mentality not only enriches the theme and content of literary writing,but also promotes the depth of literary writing from one aspect,embodying the characteristics of the literature and the cultural personality of the Literati in Song Dynasty.