On Zenggong's Cultural Character And His Creation Upon Poetry And Prose

Zonggong' s cultural character dated back to literati society of Song Dynasty, Zenggong focused on temperament training of Confuciannism. This influenced his standpoint of politics,view of life and his Poetry and Prose works.This essay discuss Zenggong's life style,Poetry and Prose works which base on the relationship of Confuciannism and life,Confuciannism and liturature.Part one is concerned with Zenggong' s cultural character. It is made up of three chapters. Chapter one is about sociel care and cultural psychology of Song Dynasty' literati. that is, Zonggong' s cultural character dated back to the mid-Song Dynasty when the society under a great change ,which had a deep influence on sociel culture. The formation of his cultural character is based on his thinking of Confuciannism and contemporary atmosphere. Chapter two is about Zonggong' s view on "dao" and "dao" influence his thoughts. As a pure Confucian literati, Zenggong shows his distinctive view on "dao" .Zenggong thought that a person could attain sincerity if he payed attention to temperament training, and this person would change as universe. Due to emphasizing temperament training,his political thoughts stressed enlightening people by education. Chapter three is about Zenggong' s life thinking and life style. he exceeded reality difficulty by lofty spirit which came from his persisting "dao" .The second part focus on Zenggong' s poetry and prose works, including six chapters. Chapter one is about Zenggong' s "wen dao doctrine" , his "wen dao doctrine" is linked with his philosiphy thoughts, because he stressed enlightening people by education,he focused on literature' s politicle and social function. Chapter two disscusses Zenggong literary works' form, including nine form of literary works. Chapter three is about Zenggong' s prose style and the foundation' cause from his feelings,structure and language. Chapter four is about Zenggong' s prose language which includs Zenggong' s thingking on language and his prose language feature. Chapter five is about Zenggong' literature thoughts which influence upon Zhuxi of Song Dynasty, Tangsong group of Ming Dynasty and Tongcheng group of Qing Dynasty. Chapter five discusses the poetic content, the poetic periods and the poetic artistic manifestation, which contains three sections:language,the special expression and feelings. at last, focusing on feature and shortcoming of Zenggong' poems. Zenggong' poems are not excellent,but his working makes a stormy sea stormier to Song accent' starting.