The Personality Construction Of Wei Yuan's Landscape Poems

Wei Yuan is one of the most famous enlighten thinkers and literati in modern times of China. He was interested in Wang Yangming's idealism in his early years. Later he learned Gong Yang Annals following Liu Fenglu. In his middle age, he was immersed in Buddhism because of his failure in imperial examination. He was initiated into Buddhism in his old age. Three personalities of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism were mixed together in his lifetime of frustrations, especially reflected in his landscape poems.The discourse discusses the personality construction of Wei Yuan's landscape poems from four aspects as follows:Firstly, Confucian personality. Confucian personality gave Wei Yuan generous bosom of saint. Even when he was traveling, what he worried about still was his nation's safety and danger. Wei Yuan's landscape poems could combine earnest 昿assion of saving the nation, keen glorying in his nation and deep worry with gallant landscape, philosophy of nature. The poems were bright in latter-day Parnassus of China. Materializing as follow: (I) generous bosom of saint. (II)Wei Yuan felt sad when he saw time elapsing because his ideality couldn't come true, which testified his earnest passion of saving the nation inversely. (III)The inspirit of no fear of difficulties and active enterprise.Secondly, Buddhism personality. Wei Yuan had to find the life boat in Buddhism when he experienced hard life and couldn't find the answer of the troubles he was barging up against. Materializing as follow: (I)Description of fanes and bonzes, the use of Buddhism language. (II)The imagining of landscape related with Buddhism. There are two special images: (i) lotus flower, (ii) Brahma. (III) Buddhist allegory on his life.Thirdly, Taoist personality. When Wei Yuan's Confucian personality was frustrated in cruel reality, Taoist personality could help him escape from reality.What's more, Taoist personality urged him to indulge himself in nature and traveling unconsciously, in order to clear away his tired soul and go back to naivete. Materializing as follow: (I) the love knot of returning to nature.(II) Yearning towards natural and naive personality, (i) Going in for naive essentiality. (ii)Free and insular life condition, (iii) The image of heaven with peach.Fourthly, the significance of three personalities. Confucian personality, Buddhism personality and Taoist personality interlaced in Wei Yuan's landscape poems and made up of his spirit support which his life existed on and exceeded. Wei Yuan relied on landscape and landscape poems, and blended his active enterprise, his political frustration, the conflict between seeking disengagement and coming true impossibly in practice, with the bewilderment of life, coming into being the complicated personality.In conclusion, the thought, the politics and the culture of latter-day society were in fast change and alternation, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism were all made strong impact on. But as the modes of personal subsistence, they were still helpful indelibly. It brought up a passel of ideologists and scholars with rich thought and complicated personality in late Qing Dynasty. On the one hand, the ideologists and scholars appealed to save the nation; on the other hand, they used the subsistence mode of Buddhism and Taoism to deal with the collision between their ideality and reality, in order to get spiritual disengagement and interior comfort, in order to find their soul homes.Even in contemporary society, the interdependent personality construction of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are still useful for us to understand the latter-day society and the thought of its ideologists and scholars.