A Study On The Fashion Of Scholar-officials' Valuing Feelings In Wei And Jin Dynasties

It is literature researcher that has first prompted the thesis that scholar-officials in Wei and Jin dynasties valued feelings. But when conducting investigation in a thorough-going way, we find it's more than a literature phenomenon, but a epochal characteristics, which continued several centuries and produced extensive social influence. The strong feelings of scholar-officials penetrated many fields, such as ideological trend, social life, art and literature, and so on. That scholar-officials' valuing feelings came into fashion in entire society resulted from many factors and their interaction. First, the decadence of Confucianism and the ethics supported by it, caused the fashion directly, which is the historic premise. Second, the elite families' dominated role in politic insured scholar-officials' privilege to indulge themselves. Third, Wei Jin Xuan Xue advocates that human feelings are gift, this pushed the fashion forward. Last, scholar-officials in Wei and Jin Dynasties suffered frequent natural or man-made calamities, so they became more sentimental. To carry forward the study of this thesis to a new stage, this paper probes into the relationship between human feelings and feudal ethics. Through tracing back the origin of ancient Chinese ethics culture, this article tells the essence of ethics' beginning with human feelings and the successive stage of their mutual alteration, so that to place the fashion in a dynamic background, and then to emphasize its special status in the history of feudal ethics...