Confucianism Explanation On "Branch Road Lamp"

This article attempts to carry on the explanation from Confucianism angle to "Branch road Lamp", here Confucianism refers to the pre-qin primitive Confucianism in particular whose representatives are Confuci and Mengzi."Branch road Lamp" has a lot of quotations that are original text and the literary reference in the pre-qin Confucianist classics. The author directly or indirectly uses these original texts and the literary reference to the narrative process, the plot design and in character image molding of the novel, so, the primitive Confucianism spirit that were fouded in these original texts and the literary reference forms certain standard and the restriction to the novel content and the form. Through this, the author wants to achieve this kind of goal, namely comparing the bright vitality and progress primitive Confucianism Neo-Confucianism forms with the decline reactionary Cheng Zhu thinking, thus urging the more people's thought to the primitive Confucianism return, changing people's spirit by the time, in orde to saves the feudalism world at the end of.Although in author's subjective intention has serious tendency of defending traditional moral principles, moreover the novel also fully was denounced. But it is affirmation for the author to bring honor to the progressive thought which reveals the primitive Confucianism spirit in the process. In particular certain education thought which have been displayed in the book has the some enlightenment to us today .This article main body altogether divides into seven chapters:First chapter, Kong Zi "the poem teaches" and the creation intention of the "Branch road Lamp", explains the influence of the Confucianist "the poem teaches" to the "Branch road Lamp", and seeks the progressive factor of the creation intention from this kind of influencen in the novel.Second chapter, the Confucianist "the filial piety" and the"Loyal and Filial piety" thought of the "Branch road Lamp", elaborates the Confucianist "the filial piety" in "Branch road Lamp" manifesting, and explanais progressive factor novel of the...