The Composition Of Epistolary Prose In Han Dynasty And Scholars’ Psychology

Han epistolary prose is of great vital in the development of the epistolary prose in ancient china,it makes the letter go out of the limitation of document paper and creates a new world that the scholars can express themselves freely. We can spy the change of scholars’ psychology from the creation of Han epistolary prose .This paper consists of three parts.In the introduction,I definite the concept of epistolary prose and the relationship between the epistolary prose and the scholars’ psychology, finish the clue of generation and development of epistolary prose before Han,illuminate the research status of epistolary prose besides the research significance in this paper.The first chapter is the general development situation of Han epistolary prose,mainly including three parts. The first part is the basic condition of the epistolary prose in the western Han dynasty, the second part is the basic condition of the epistolary prose in the eastern Han dynasty ,the third part is to state the overall characteristics of Han epistolary prose,mainly for three aspects:flexible space,exquisite form;pay attention to practicality,strong literariness;different style,distinct personality.The second chapter and the third chapter discuss in the same way,both chapters firstly read the text,then analysis the scholars’ psychology reflected in the works, and then study the reason why some kind of psychology exists combining the writers’personalty ,life experience besides the ideological ,political and other conditions at that time.The second chapter is epistolary prose in western Han dynasty and the scholars,psychology for three section.The first is the creation of epistolary prose in the western Han dynasty in the early founding to the emperor Han Wu’s forepart years and the scholars’psychology,in this period,the scholars’psychology mainly show two types,nameIy,contingent,show loyalty’s;The second is the creation of epistolary prose in the emperor Han Wu’s mid-term ,late years to the emperor Xuan’s years and the scholars’psychology.in this period,the scholars’ psychology mainly show four types,namely, close to Confucianism’s,confident,tolerant,querying the orthodoxy’s;The third is the creation of epistolary prose in the emperor Han Yuan’s years to the emperor Ping’s years,in this period,the scholars’ psychology show two types,namely,cautious,beguiled by the academic.The quantity of the epistolary prose in the eastern Han dynasty is large than the epistolary prose in the western Han dynasty.The scholars’ psychology is multivariate.The third chapter is the creation of epistolary prose in eastern Han dynasty and the scholars psychology for three sections,the first is the epistolary prose in the emperor Han Guang Wu’s years to the emperor Zhang’s years and the scholars’ psychology,in this period,the scholars’ psychology show two types,namely,protecting the reputation and guarding the friendship’s,establishing reputation and cultivating morality’s.The second is the epistolary prose in the emperor Han He’s years to the emperor Zhi’s years and the scholars, psychology,in this period, the scholars, psychology show two types,namely,generous and enterprising ,quite .The third is the epistolary prose in the emperor Han Huan’s years to the emperor Xian’s years and the scholars, psychology,in this period ,the scholars5 psychology show six types ,namely,cautious,reserved,sad,angry and excited,unrestrained,reclusive and escaped the scourges’.From the discussion in the two chapters,it is obvious to find that the change of the scholars’psychology is related ton the political factors .Meanwhile,the scholars’psychology tends to be outgoing,that is,confidence of the scholars is explosive from inside to outside ,their negative emotion roots in external blow and they can quickly divert attention.But the scholars’ psychology tends to be inward,that is ,their confidence is reserved and their sadness is exaggerated .In the conclusion ,again,I point out that there are some questions in this paper because of complexity and variability of the scholars’ psychology although I objectively present the traits of the scholars’ psychology based on the works.