Official Career And Seclusion: Typical Case Studies Of The Scholars In Tang And Song Dynasties

Based on the relationship between "official career and seclusion" and scholar's mentality, the paper laies stress on the rethink and evaluation to the classical writers. Firstly, the author collected the reasons of influencing the scholars'mentality about official career and seclusion in Tang and Song Dynasties from history view. The explanation for the idea of escape from The Book of Changes and confucianism and taoism sets the tone of tang and song writers'official career and seclusion mind. Foremore, weijin metaphysics and Tao Yuanming's ideas and philosophy also profoundly influenced the scholar's minds and the code of conduct in tang and song dynasties. From the intellectual history view, this article selected several typical writers like Wang Wei,Meng Haoran, Wei Yingwu,Bai Juyi,Ouyang Xiu,Wang Anshi. Su Shi as typical cases. Based on the case studies of the classical writers, grasp their ideas about worldly affairs and seclusion and their thoughts about life, and find the scholar's minds and personality characteristics. Such as Wang Wei's "not to care one way or another",Bai Juyi's "to be a hermit",Su Shi's "not to be officials not not to be officials",Wang Anshi's "not made by Paul" the spirit and so on. Meanwhile, based on the foundation of concept of official career and seclusion and the scholar's mentality, the paper made evaluation to the classical writers and their works of tang and song dynasties. Such as Meng Haoran, scholars generally think he is a "real hermit", but actually, be positive for official career throughout his life. And we started from "hermit" and "hermit poet" and studied Meng Haoran as "pastoral poets" Obviously, it is not the real way to reading Meng Haoran and his works. Another example, the evaluation of Wei Yingwu's poetry style was explored from its "noble" and he was unanimously regarded as one of the elegant and natural poets. In fact, his stay at home was not seclusion, but having positive attitude for official career. A few of his poems looks like Tao Yuanming's. Some tracked Xie Lingyun and other six dynasties poet, whose style were gorgeous. Some works, speaking vehemently with a distinctly moral tone, can not be summarized only by serene style. The paper based on case studies of these classical writers,the conception of "official career and seclusion" and the scholar's mentality reflects the unique outlook of tang and song dynasties scholars through fresh individual research. The author tried to promote the research on classical writers through such ideas.