Research On The Personality Of Tang Yin

This article mainly discusses Tang Yin' personality, its formation and expression, and his influence on scholars of late Ming Dynasty.This paper discusses Tang Yin's impudent personality through his cavalier-pursue and intelligent but activities, and it can also be seen in his thought which admires cavalier and be intelligent without seeming so. What's more, his personality also influences his view of literature.There are complex causes for Tang Yin's impudent personality, both subjective and objective. The subjective cause is his rocky life experience, and the objective causes are: Impudent scholars who communicated with him a lot, the tradition of seclusion and other elements including the citizen class, Neo-Confucianism(an idealist philosophy in the Song and Ming Dynasties), the tradition of emphasizing humanities and the new growth of commerce.Taking Yuan Hongdao as an example, this chapter discusses the influence of Tang Yin's impudent personality on Late Ming Dynasty scholars. This part is discussed through analyzing similarities and differences between Tang Yin's and Yuan Hongdao's attitudes to life and their views on literature.