Study Of Literatures By Huizhou Literators Prohibited And Destroyed In The Early Qing Dynasty

Under the rigorous policy during the early periods of the Qing Dynasty, large amounts of literatures written by scholars from Huizhou, which is so called the "Zoulu in the southeast" and the "State of literature", were prohibited or destroyed. In this study, the acrimonious policy of cultural suppression and the cruel harm to the Han literator by the dynasts were discussed from the flowing four aspects based on the accounting and detailed investigation of the literatures, which are authored by literators from Huizhou but were prohibited/destroyed in the early Qing Dynasty (i.e., the four periods of Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong).In Chapter 1, seven types of writings that were prohibited or destroyed were summarized through the detailed analyses of the types and topics of these literatures by literators from Huizhou. The types of prohibited/destroyed literatures spread history record, miscellanea, poem, novel, play book, etc., and the topics involve many fields including politics, military, culture, natural science. These statistics clearly show the crazy intention of the Qing dynasts to eliminate the culture of Han race.In Chapter 2, the cause for the prohibition and destruction of those literatures by literators from Huizhou was discussed. Huizhou was an important battlefield and a resistance base against the Qing Dynasty during the changeover of dynasty from Ming to Qing. Meanwhile, the historical cultural accumulation in Huizhou since the Nansong Dynasty yielded a large number of scholars and writings and stimulated some new ideology. Both factors make the writings of Huizhou authors be closely surveilled, resulting in many of them being prohibited or destroyed.In Chapter 3, the culture-controlling policy during the four periods of early Qing Dynasty was anatomized as the following four aspects: (1) two-tactics strategy, (2) advocate of Cheng and Zhu's philosophy, (3) no difference between native and foreigner, (4) Hans govern Hans. This analysis reveals the deep psychological reason of the Qing dynasts for their extensive cultural control and demonstrates the origin of servility of the later Han scholars.In Chapter 4, the effect of the literature prohibition/destruction was discussed. The cultural control limited the diversity of literature production of Huizhou literators and influenced the progressive direction of Huizhou culture. A lot of scholars from Huizhou converted to the study of sinology and achieved significant accomplishment in JingXue, producing an important faction of QianJiaXuePai, WartPai. Unfortunately, this splendid achievement was cost by a freaky development of culture.