There Is No Flowery Appearance, But The Snow Spirits

The short and aesthetic essays in late Ming Dynasty was written by so many people at that time, which was so closely connected with the emotion-emphasized cultural background coming from the changes in the ideological area. The scholars shifted their attention from the political circle to everyday life and settled down in the aesthetic life, using the short essays to express their inner feeling, natural beautiful scene and the instant emotion. If we compare it with foreign literature, I think that it was similar to the Japanese poem "pai ju" in many ways. The philosophy idea "being because of thoughts" was replaced with "being because of feelings" in the two kinds of articles. Buddhism covered the minds of the late Ming Dynasty scholars and the "paiju" writers , so their articles were with Buddhism tastes and worth reading again. But in the two kinds of articles, we can only enjoy the delicate aesthetic style, finding little about the striving spirits. Though the two articles had so many similarities, certainly they also had a few differences such as writing form, the authors' living style and attention got from other countries. In the last paragraph , we can find that they have similarities in the developing rule according to the research of the two kinds of articles.