The Research Of Wang Hongzhuan And His Literary Ideology

Wang Hongzhuan,was one of the famous adherents of Ming dynasty in Guanzhong region,who was well known as a literatus,idealist,calligrapher,and an epigraphy.And he had high attainments in Confucian,poetics,yi-ology,calligraphy and painting.The changing from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty caused Wang to give up his patriotic enthusiasm of entering the official career.He refused to enter politics,and began to tour around the whole country as a hermit.In his lifetime,he had been to the capital twice,the south China forth,and as far as Fujian and Guangdong.In his tour,Wang associated with lots of different scholars,regardless of their retirement or official.And they had contacted and written poetry and prose frequently with each other.Time reform and a wide range of making friends not only changed the life of Wang Hongzhuan,but also made up his unique theoretical system and literary theory.This thesis was based on widely collecting different kinds of literature information,and careful reading Wang Hongzhuan’s works.It tried to accurately summarize and concretely explain his aesthetic pursuit of’ pure and refined" and his literature style of" simple and rustic",through the study on the huge change of Wang’s family and experience,and the communication process between the groups of literati.So we can explore the trend and evolution of the whole literature in the Ming-Qing Dynasty.This thesis is divided into three parts:the introduction,the text combined with three chapters,and the epilogue.The introduction mainly introduces Wang Hongzhuan and his works,and presents the existing academic research achievements about him,on which basis it raises the major research contents and methods of this thesis.The first chapter is about Wang Hongzhuan’s life experience and family background.Wang Hongzhuan,who was born in a distinguished family,was natural and unrestrained when he was young.He liked to make friends,and had literary talent and great ambitions.With the destruction of Ming Dynasty,the minority conquered the Central Plain,so that the politics,economy and ideological culture had changed enormously.As a normal scholar under the time background,his individual fate had also seen tremendous changes.Politically speaking,he chose to be out of official.And his family becomed to be a straitened circumstance.What’s more,he made up his integrated theoretical system and anti-feudal thoughts.The second chapter is about the history of Wang Hongzhuan’s travelling and making friends.Wang Hongzhuan travelled around the country as a hermit,and made friends with the scholars between north and south.There are various letters and poetic prose with his friends in his works.With the intention of scholar exploration and communication,Wang Hongzhuan made friends with the group of literati in Guanzhong,the group of literati in Jiangnan region,and the group of literati entering into Guanzhong area.Rely on his extensive friendship,not only Wang Hongzhuan’s personal literary style acquired development unceasingly,but also the culture between north and south had been received successfully.It is an epitome of the North-South cultural communication in the period of late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.The third chapter studies on Wang Hongzhuan’s literary thoughts.Wang Hongzhuan,as an outstanding writer,was famous on his numerous writings.On the one hand,he wrote a large number of poetic and prose works;on the other hand,he created a unique set of literary theory of his own.He advocated the aesthetic pursuit of,pure and refined",pursued the writing style of" simple and rustic",devoted particular care to real narration,and analyzed the characters and the social reality intensely.Wang Hongzhuan’s appreciation was influenced by the whole literature world in the Ming-Qing Dynasty,reflecting the complex circumstances of writing style transformation.The epilogue summarizes the whole thesis.Wang Hongzhuan survived and wrote to the identity of an adherents.His literary thoughts and works left an important effect on the literature history in the early Qing dynasty.