On The TangZhen's Enlightening Thoughts And His Prose's Style

TangZhen is a very important enlightening thinker and writer Although only Qianshu and seldom articles are spread, it is enough to show his achievements in the thinking and prose . As an enlightening thinker, he criticizes the thoughts in Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty fiercely. Using the reasonable thoughts of the Confucianists, he criticizes the feudalism from the Qing Dynasty, advices to limit the King's power and develops the democracy. At the same time, influenced by his philosophical thinking, his literary thoughts and prose style show the artistic characteristics as a thinker. The most important characteristic is the reason. It shows form three sides: Firstly, he advocates that the prose should be useful to the society. Secondly, he consider the prose should have the senee of reality. He denies echoing the views of others and emphasizes the writer should have his own thoughts; Thirdly, he promotes the writer should have the spirit that brings forth new ideas. These ideas have close relationships with his status of a thinker and a writer. Naturally, these ideas influence his prases. Qianshu has not only the academic Quality, but also the artistic quality. The incisive thoughts and the intense feeling are the outstanding characteristics of TangZhen's proses. In order to illustrate his thoughts and ideas, TangZhen pays attention to the writing skill too. The cultural value is TarigZhen's style. At his middle and old age, as the Emperor Kangxi strengthen then on controlling the culture, the study style of criticizing the reality changes to serve the reality. But TangZhen always stick to his style of study and his character as an enlightening scholar.