Weijin Research, And Confucianism

Though the influential power of Confucianism is impaired by metaphysics in WeiJin Dynasty , it still play a great role in the domains of politics, academy, culture, arts, except for the literature. There are nearly connections between the literature and Confucianism in WeiJin Dynasty, which tend to be ignored by the current academia. The dissertation tries to resolve this thesis systematically and all-sidedly.The dissertation is made up of three parts, namely the preface, the text, the conclusion. The preface tries to discuss the current researchful situations on the thesis of the relationships between Confucianism and the literature in WeiJin Dynasty. It presents three aspects at least:Confucianism in WeiJin Dynasty has lost its authority in official ideology domains, but it still spread abroad in the local educational systems by the government and by the civilian Confucian learners. So Confucianism in WeiJin Dynasty has profound effects on the personalities, value senses and the Confucian aesthetic pursuits of the literators all the same.Confucian literary senses are the important part of the literary ideas in WeiJin Dynasty, which play a great role in theorizing the new frameworks of literary critical categories under the background of amalgamation between Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism.Confucian literary senses have been inherited and digested by the literators in WeiJin Dynasty, which influenced the poetry, eulogy and prose in the aspects of literary quotations, rhetoric, images, artistic conception and aesthetic styles, etc.The text is constituted of two parts, the former tries to discuss the double attributes of Confucianism, i.e. it acts as a kind of reigning ideology as a kind of philosophical theory, which decides the influence from Confucianism takes on a complicated visage. Meanwhile, it tries to analyze the relationships between the Confucian literary senses and the compositions in WeiJin Dynasty, in order to prove the conclusions about the influence. The latter tries to discuss the counteractive from the literature to Confucianism in WeiJin Dynasty, in order to disclose the situations about the renovation and the following.The influence from Confucianism to the literature in WeiJin Dynasty presents the obverse and inverse sides. The obverse one represents three ways :Firstly, The conception of poetry promoting the intercommunication between all kinds of different people from Confucian literary senses, has been accepted sufficiently. As the most obvious representation, plenty of collectivized literary activities appear in a high frequency, meanwhile, a lot of first-classed works emerge as the times require.Secondly, Confucian moral senses such as benevolence, ethos, justice and loyalty are embraced all-pervading by the literators in WeiJin Dynasty, who blazon forth the themes about caring for the people's livelihood, pursuing the unification of the country and criticizing the corruption, dereliction of duty and confusion of the political situation. The Confucian value senses and personalities endow the literary compositions with kinds of aesthetic tastes including powerfulness, solemn and stirring, honest and frank, fair and square, etc.Thirdly , the amalgamation between Confucianism and metaphysics accelerate the multi-valued senses of literators to come into being in WeiJin Dynasty. As a result, the contents of the literary compositions during this stage take on multi-idealistic tendency. Fourthly, the moderate and harmonious aesthetic senses are accepted by the literators in WeiJin Dynasty, which are the core of Confucian aesthetic ideality, and promote the literature to take on the styles of elegance and luxuriance. Especially the latter has more profound effects on the literary world from South and North Dynasty to Sui and initial Tang Dynasty.The inverse one represents two ways at least:On one hand, Confucian political edificatory connotation of the literature is still emphasized in WeiJin Dynasty, the status of literary composition sometimes is debased.On the other hand , the literary model function of Confucian classics is so commonly overstated that a lot of crude classicized works overrun in WeiJin Dynasty.In conclusion, the affiliated relationships between the literature and Confucianism have been changed from Han to WeiJin Dynasty. This dissertation tries to get to the bottom of it, on base of which to provide some valuable clues to review the corresponding relationships between the literature and Confucianism from South and North Dynasty to Sui and initial Tang Dynasty. The relationships between Confucianism and the literature are very complicated and omnifarious, which is worthy of a more thorough a profound research. The dissertation tries to disclose the conditions of the amalgamation between Confucianism and the literature in WeiJin Dynasty, based on which to discuss the possibilities of their intercommunication. The dissertation puts an emphasis on the important influence from Confucian literary senses to the construction of the literary theory in WeiJin Dynasty, in order to coordinate the substantial relationships and rules between Confucianism and the literature in WeiJin Dynasty. Now, the researches about the relationships between the literature and Confucianism from Spring and Autumn Time to Han Dynasty, and from Song to Qing Dynasty, even including the latter-day, are so abundant that proves the corresponding research in WeiJin Dynasty is both possible and feasible. Strenghening the depth and width of it can consummate the researches on the relationships between Chinese ancient literature and Confucianism.