"Gong An San Yuan" Travels Study

The Ming Dynasty in the Chinese history is a special time. On the one hand it is the feudalism extension and the strengthening, on the other hand it is the rapid development of commodity economy. The uncoordinated political and economical relations have the noticeable influence to the prose domain. There are two kinds of influences in the travels domain: Restores the old principle and the literature liberation. But they had not pointed out an brightness path to the literary arena, instead ,they have brought the malpractice. The malpractice of literary arena was more and more known by the people in The Ming Dynasty later period, they urgent need the new theory and the creations to break the old regulations, so the opposition archaism ideological trend appeared.Along with this ideological trend appearance, the Gong An groups advocated expresses in writing, then the travels prose has developed a new trend to break the tradition fetter .Its characteristic is to regards the scenery scenic as individual esthetic object, displays individual esthetic appeal, not only they do not collaborate, moreover they have a tendency of breaks the feudal tradition. Gong an brothers" were represent this trend of development. They clearly saw the trend of literature development - - simplify, therefore they oppose the archaic vigorously, its travels finally got rid of the traditional fetters.This essay is use the travels of "Gong an brothers" as the object of study, the full essay is divided into three parts:The first part is speaking about their social and cultural context, and the influence which Li Zhi exerted on their. This is the foundation of the full text.The second part is the key point of this article, it is also divided into three parts. First, it is to analyse the two groups travels of Yuan Zong Dao, and inspecte the change of the thought, that his conscious of saint is gradually desalinated,in his two groups of travels. Next is to analyse the travels of Yuan Hong Dao, and inspecte the change of the thought in his travels which created in different time. Finally is to analyse the travels of Yuan Zhong Dao which created in three times .From his travels we can see a wild uninhibited man in youth time, a reconsidering past man in Middle-aged time and a moderate man in old age.The third part is mainly analyse the characteristics of their travels and comments their travels'value. Their travels have the very high esthetics and the literature value, its also have study value about modern travel. Therefore, to research their travels, has the theory significance, also has the very big practical significance.