Between Cynicism And Hermitship

Being different from the Za Ju of Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, The last Ming Dynasty's Za Ju have a noticed feature that it's literary and not for performance. The social state of most of the last Ming Dynasty's writer is lower than the early Ming's. Most of them are frustrated literator who failed in the imperial examinations or them official career. They always lived in a gloomy mood of which they couldn't extricate themselves out. Then they expressed they emotion in these writings. Chen Yu Jiao's Za Ju The loyal dog asks a question unconsciously: if living in a troubled times which is the last phrase of a dynasty, when the moral and ethic conflicting with the empire's law, as a common person, what should he do? Another writer Wang Heng, the son of the prime minister Wang Xi Jue, tell us that the world in his eyes is full of broken heart, witch even can't be repaired by the great goddess Nv Wa who have repaired the broken sky in Chinese myth. All kinds of people's occupation is no means for him, and all of these are full of suffering. Even sleeping and death couldn't release him. The only way to release the tremendous tension between person and social is Mei Nai He, the leading actor's jumping into a gourd. At the same time, the moral and ethic that support the traditional social's structure had been corrupted rapidly in the last Ming Dynasty. Wang Jiu Si abused the corrupted custom through elder Zhang Li in his Za Ju Mountain Zhong's Wolf, it seemed that there was no lightness in this world. In the last phrase of the dynasty, fame and gain is the only...