The Study On Articles In The Spring And Autumn Period

In the works of literature history, the articles in the East Zhou Dynasty was generally thought "Zuo Zhuan", "GuoYu", "ZhanGuoCe" and so on as the representative of the history article, and the "Analects of Confucius", "Lao Zi", "Mencius" and so on as the representative of Zhuzi philosopher article. Which caused by vague understanding on two, one of it is difficult to clear the specific era, and the other is to be confused the difference of work and article.In fact since the Tang Dynasty, Liu Zhiji had a view which the author of "Zuo Zhuan" had excerpted many articles from the historical documents including the Spring and Autumn Period.From then on, the articles in the Spring and Autumn Period gradually surfaced from classics works.And since the Song Dynasty,the articles in the Spring and Autumn Period has been collected and edited constantly.However, a lot of criticism and thematic studies are still thinking the the works as articles, the truth of the articles in Spring and Autumn Period is still difficult to be known really. Therefore, the main contents of this study is to combine the two organic combination and be engaged in theoretical study of the articles in Spring and Autumn Period. On the external view,the articles in Spring and Autumn Period is in a stage of a period of transition,in which the oral speech and written article appeared at the same time,the most of it is the oral speech and it has had the basic elements and the style as the written articles.what can most reflected the characteristics of the articles in ancient China is from the article of remonstration and article of diploma, the article of remonstration went on to become an important style of Chinese ancient memorials to the throne, but the articles of diploma are no longer brilliant by the change of political. The oral speech promoted the generation of written article directly.On the view of internal perspective, the family writers was the major component of all the writers in the Spring and Autumn Period. The most thoughts of the articles in this period was regarded as the noble spirit. For the individual,this spirit lay emphasis on one’s moral character just as "respect" etc; for society this spirit was many ideas about moralitypolitics.This spirit is same for the Scholar bureaucrat level in that era, but there are many difference also because of different geographical culture.Depend on the thoughts of the article in the spring and Autumn period, the style of it tends to be elegant, the aesthetic orientation as the ancient Chinese article is one of the main aesthetic orientation.