The Chinese Traditional Culture Influenced Feng Zikai

Feng Zikai is not only a prose man on the contemporary history of literature, but also a famous artist. Through comprehending his writings, we discovered that the accomplishments of Feng Zikai on literature and art originated Chinese traditional culture to a great extent. Because of living the period of particular transitional history from traditional ages to modem times, he was influenced by traditional culture as well as modern culture. It was the main aim of this paper to figure out how the traditional culture influenced Feng Zikai and to discuss what action was traditional culture acted in the artistic life of Feng Zikai.How is "Traditional culture" ? What is the connotation of traditional culture of China? I thought that traditional culture were the total spiritual fruits in a theory thinking level such as spiritual styles and features, Psychological state, thinking means and the value orientation and so on .which were created by some a nation during the history and took root in the community, represented a certain national characteristics. It took shape during the history and continuously developed and affected greatly the community practice, and it existed chiefly in the religion, morality, art and science, etc. Traditional culture of China, which center were Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism before "May Fourth New Culture Movement" , was particularly the blending of more than ten culture, including Yinyang, Mo, Fa, Ming, Zongheng, Za, Nong culture and so on. Traditional culture of China was a colossus and it was very complicated.As Feng Zikai his teacher, LI Shutong,, Feng Zikai's life also had "Three Tiers of Tower ": common customs life, art life, religion life. In the common customs life, Feng Zikai was a benevolent and noble man, and his art idea embodied Confucian thought which was active, attending the reality and life. In the art life, Feng Zikai's aesthetic interesting, artist style, creating technique stem much from Taoist idea which worshiped true, feeling and natural life.Modern literature started from anti-tradition, but the culture was non- system, non- utensils and couldn't be cut off. Among the modem writers group, the attitudes to traditional culture of China were numerous and complicated, and the effect that these writers were subjected to Chinese traditional culture was different. On the beginning of 1920's, how to correctly approach traditional culture of China was a great problem that lived in front of the Chinese intelligentsia. This research task about the spiritual connection between modem writer Feng Zikai and Chinese traditional culture, would be a introspection and reference to traditional culture of China, as well as a probing about how to correctly approach traditional culture. At the same time, we might touch up such a problem which was worth inquiring, namely what was the influence and the aesthetic resources of Chinese traditional culture to modern literature and writers of China.