Research On The Mental Processes Of Poet "Tong Guang Ti"

The late Qing Dynasty and early the Republic of China is a period of unprecedented changes when the transition from old to new, Chinese colliding with the west. During this period, the last feudal dynasty ended, and traditional culture also took an unexpected turn.“Tong Guang Ti”was an influenced traditional poetry clique in the late Qing dynasty and early the Republic of China. After the Qing dynasty perished, most of the representative poets were surviving adherents. Due to conservatively political attitude and settled cultural position, poets of“Tong Guang Ti”were criticized since the late Qing dynasty. From the south club to the new culture movement, critical waves towards these adherents were surging. Adherents who had already been in hardships even betrayed their country because individual adherent devised restoration, so they were criticized even more. After the Republic of China, it was trending to judge all things by political standards, these adherents were long-term exposed to disgrace and neglect, eventually registered in other groups, and lost its origins.Because of the special sino-foreign situation in the late Qing dynasty, these adherent poets become the last generation scholars in traditional sense–the holders of traditional culture. They were in the very end of the feudal times, witnessed the end of old period, and felt the surges of western culture. These adherents chose to follow traditions at the period of transition and collision. Their final choice under the upheavals is more than a political view, somehow it is a cultural one. This paper takes the four“Tong Guang Ti”poets Chen Baochen, Shen Zengzhi, Chen Sanli, Zheng Xiaoxu as cases, placing them in the specific background of traditional Confucianism culture as the dominant, and we hope to clarify the orientation of their political and cultural binary choices in the late Qing Dynasty and observe the track in mind of these traditional scholars in the late QingDynasty through the analysis of the different individual life experiences.Introduction involves the origin, background, significance and difficulty of the research The first chapter summarizes the formation, development and strengthening of the Confucian cultural value system, to illustrate its long and deep influence to traditional scholars for two thousand years in ideology and culture accumulation. With the decline of the Qing dynasty since modern times, the process of western culture permeating to the east accelerated, in response to the situation“upheavals thousands of years without”, the inherent ideas of traditional scholar began to loose, adjust, and eventually differentiate. The second chapter to the fifth chapter used case study, based on different life experiences of four“Tong Guang Ti”poets Chen Baochen, Shen Zengzhi, Chen Sanli, Zheng Xiaoxu, to expound the inevitability that their political attitudes and cultural standpoints eventually all return to tradition with the leading of traditional Confucian culture through upheavals, though.The sixth chapter is conclusion. With the demise of the traditional culture, the adherent poets who followed traditions faded away inevitably at last. Yet even these poets were under criticism by south club and new culture movement, their influence didn’t vanish, inherited through its successors. In democracy republican era, adherents of Qing Dynasty were out of the mainstream of society who didn’t conform to the trend of the times. As the remnants of feudal dynasty, they would definitely die with the age, especially those betrayed their nation, should be condemned and spit on. But as the holders and martyrs of traditional culture, they faced the huge pressure of public opinion, ignored utilitarian gain and loss, stack to own moral and cultural beliefs, and safeguarded the traditional culture painstakingly. Their persistence and efforts are worthy of awe, and their achievements and contributions in academic and poetry should not be wiped away. Placed in the current historical environment, given their original look back, and not demanded in today’s eyes, they deserve the objective evaluation.