The Study Of Gentry And Their Literature In The Wei-Jin And Southern Dynasty

The rising of Gentry is a great event in the political area of the Han dynasty and Tang Dynasty.Gentry is not only the medieval political protagonists, but also medieval culture heritage.Taking Gentry as the subject investigated. This paper adopts cavalier perspective to exert itself in researching the relevance of Gentry and the Wei-Jin and Southern Dynasties literature.The whole paper is composed of three parts : sub- introduction, text, conclusion.The sub-introduction part principally illuminates the research approaches and perspectives of this Paper, and definites the core concept.The conclusion part sums up the whole Paper.The text part is divided into five chapters.Chapter I Generally discuss gentry culture details and its changes in the Middle Ages.Gentry culture is rooted in Confucianism.Confucianism is an indispensable culture means to Shape the Gentry and maintain their social status.Studying generation after generation and ministers generation after generation is the general Characteristics and idiosyncrasy of many families.Along with " the take-off and landing " of the Gentry political status,Metaphysics,Buddhism,Taoism and other cultural factors all effected Gentry Culture Character in a certain extent.but Gentry finally found the balance among Confucianism,Metaphysics,Buddhism,Taoism.In the practical ways of cultivation, the gentry's Confucian background hasn't changed. The reason of the irreplaceable status of Gentry hangs on its culture tradition itself.Chapter II is in the Perspective of Family Literature. Wei, Jin and Southern Dynasties academic adopted family as their main carrier.family morale and family study is the cultureal sign of Gentry. Gentry controlled the Words Power of cultural area from the beginning to the end by means of their family morale and family study.This situation is bound to have an impact on the gentry literary. the characteristics of medieval literature formed of parallelism and aristocratic taste is largely related to Gentry leading the whole style of writing. emergence of family literature is one of the characteristics of Medieval Literature. The flourishing trend of family literature began in the Wei and Jin Dynasties .It is especially flourished in Jiang-Zuo 5th Dynasties.Keeping literary Talents generation after generation can be seen in Big Family time and again.Following the outward of the universal prosperity of Family Literature ,different families prefer different literature .Different cultural background and different local areas prefer different literature too. In this Paper, based on statistical data, we sort out the circumstances of more than 30 literature families, They basically represent the highest achievements in literature of this stage .The third chapter focused on the literary family ups and downs and the reasons .In terms of the whole gentry hierarchy ,medieval literary family emerged prosperity. But each family had its own character , it is not the same with other family .Some literature family span along the whole period of that Dynasty , some only lasted for ten years or so .The literature families is a colony changed in some extent .As time goes by , some families faded out while some others ranked among the families.along the whole process , political factor is almost the most important reason of the change . Political instability , Dynasties turnover and migration frequently became the chance for the gentry to build their new order .Besides , social relations between the gentry families also brought ups and downs to them.Chapter IV is based on statistical data , it Analyses the geographical distribution of gentry scholars . Political situation upheavalled in mediaeval times.The geographical distribution of gentry scholars also changed as how the situation changed . Before migrating to the South , The literature heart centred on the Zhongzhou Area with a core of Luoyang City . In the dispeace of Three Dynasties, Luoyang dropped its status as the cultural center .YeCheng and XuDu had for a time been the most centralized area of gentry .There were also some gentry from Zhongzhou migrated to Jingzhou and Jizhou and other places for escaping disaster .After Yongjia migrating to the South , Jiangnan region had a rapid increase in cultural status .Jiangkang became the literature of the whole Country and replaced Luoyang .Among the places , Xuzhou , Yangzhou and Jing-zhou are cities where most gentry gathered in Jiangzuo 5th Dynasty. In the Jiang-zuo Period, local characters of literature varied in different areas where gentry gathered .Chapter V deals with gentry Scribes Cluster --- literature group . During Wei , Jin and South Dynasties , more than ten literature group emerged one after another .the literature group types are quite complex rich because of its large amount , different members and different origins of their gathering . In this paper,more than twenty active literary groups are sorted out at different periods .It varies a little in the activity way and activity content for the literature groups . Most of the activitis are within the boundary of literature and scholar .But a few groups also took strong lotical desire with their assemblies and activities .Some groups even firsthand participated in political struggles .Members in the literature groups formed the theory and creativity convergence , and this led to the emergence of certain literary trends .Debate and contend among different literature groups also boost the development of Medieval Literary Theory .