The Eastern Jin Dynasty Moved Southward Nobles With The Literature

The migration of the eupatrid group from middle China southwards across the Yellow River zone during the Yongjia Period was a very important event in the ancient Chinese cultural history. It should not be regarded merely as a great population migration, but more as a cultural movement, thus objectively promoting the transmitting of the middle Chinese civilization, and also causing the cultural amalgamation between the North and the South. And so it changed the developing pattern of the Chinese culture at the same time, leaving great effect upon the interspace distribution, genre, and pattern of the Chinese literature. To research and make a thorough investigation of such a topic, this paper is made up of four parts: the introduction, the main body, the extra research, and the appendix. The first part mainly discusses the meaning of the article, the method of how to make the investigation, and the content and the structure of the article. The main body is divided into four chapters: Chapter I discusses where the study of metaphysics first sprang up, analyses the process of how the cultural character of the south-migrated eupatiid came into being during the Wei-Jin periods, and investigates the cause of the south migrated eupatrid group whether to remain in the North or to migrate south across the Yellow River Zone politically, economically and culturally. Chapter II mainly discusses the south- migrated eupatrid newly-growing morale and style of study after crossing the River. It is considered that under the eupatrid clique system of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the morale of the episteme elites from the those south-migrated noble families trended to decorate themselves with both the Confucianism and the study of metaphysics, and that the ability to speak metaphysically was considered the sine qua non for a family to make its fame in the world and to get quick rise in the official career. And the Confucianism was then the essential element to maintain the family coherence, and to be both gracefully tasty and competently capable of building a world-administrating became the new idealcharacter of the episteme eupatrid during the Eastern Jin period. This article holds such a view that the south-migrated noble families made great contribution to the becoming of the style of study in South China. The characteristics of the southern style of study, which was widely considered "southerners contracted with the distillation", benefited from the metaphysical culture. And this style of study took an active part in the promotion of the develop- ment of southern literature. Finally, by investigating the actual family education of the south-migrated eupatrid group, it is hoped to make a deeper interpretation of their morale and style of study. Chapter III traverses the relationship between the Eastern Jin literature and the morale and style of study of the south-migrated eupatrid episteme elites. We think that metaphysical poetry had a great deal to do with the Eastern Jin episteme elite political system. The metaphysical poetry presented the aesthetical interest of the south-migrated eupatrid elites. And the declination of the metaphysical poetry was a sign that the eupatrid episteme political system was to come down and the ethos of the metaphysics was to attenuate, not because it was tasteless as has been widely held. We cannot quite agree with the idea that landscape poetry was the evolution from metaphysical poetry, but we have come to the conclusion that landscape poetry rooted from the landscape aesthetics practice of the south-migrated eupatrid episteme elites in the Huiji district during the middle Eastern Jin period. Poets during the Eastern Jin period had composed landscape poems, and landscape poetry presented itself before Xie Lingyun began composing this stylistic poems. This chapter also pays attention to discussing the relationship between the arts such as calligraphy, brushwork and music and the morale of the south-migrated noble families. Chapter IV studies the case of the Suns from Zhongdu, Taiyuan, who south-migrated during the Yongjia period. We have made a thorough investigation into the Sun family history, its family learning, and family morale, and carefully studied the most outstanding cultural figure Sun Chuo from this family. The extra research discusses the transmitting of cultural mainstream after the declination of the south-migrated eupatrid group, and the...