The Western Knowledge Influenced The Knowledge Structure And Values Of Literati Of Ming Dynasty

With religious mission, the missionaries of western countries arrived in this ancient and closed country--China from Wanli to Chongzhen of Ming dynasty. After the renaissance, Europeans made the sciences and culture prosperous and the new knowledge was introduced into China. At that time, Europeans changed political darkness, economic lower, science and technology and cultural backwardness of their own countries into modern civilized society. There were religious reformers in the European countries. The missionaries of anti-religious reformers ever worked hard and began their religious missionary all over the world. They reached China at a time of turbulence, there was great scientific potential difference from Europe and rulers of Ming dynasty wanted to change the situation. As its political background and cultural information, these missionaries'measure of missionizing by way of the introducing science coincided with the scholar-bureaucrats'concept of usefulness and was accepted by some of them. They used this knowledge to communicate between China and western countries. They brought astronomy, mathematics, medicine, geography, physics and firearms study of natural science and humanities. These western thoughts would rush Chinese series of conceptions of universe, ways of thinking and the faith----the western astronomy and geography made Chinese scholars change their traditional thoughts about the around sky and square earth; western medicine changed the faith that the thought came not from brain but from heart; the Logic mathematics made Chinese learn the Super-rational experience and firearms study stimulated the literati interested in learning practical technology. But some conservative Confucian thought what Jesuit missionaries brought to China had come from China and they disagreed to accept the western knowledge.It has three parts, the first part of the account of Chinese and western cultural background and the gap between the knowledge of missionaries took advantage of the possibility of missionary work. Through Renaissance Movement and the industrial revolution, promoting economic and science and technology of the West as a whole has been elevated to a new stage. Reformation Movement burst in Europe continuously throughout and anti-religious reformers, Jesuit, bred at the same time and continue to expand its sphere of influence to the rest of the world. At the end of the Ming Dynasty of China, there were internal and external problems in society, and social situation volatile. The ideological field was turned from the beginning of the Neo-Confucianism to the medium-term changes of the heart, as well as the late Ming Wang Xuanxu the end of the extension and the Fulao.The areas of new knowledge brought by missionaries to China are summed up in the second part. With constantly preach choice, missionaries ultimately determined the way, suitable for China's unique approach - knowledge missionary. They brought astronomy, mathematics, medicine, geography, physics and firearms study of natural science and humanities to China. These western thoughts would rush Chinese series of conceptions of universe and ways of thinking and would deepen Chinese traditional science and technology.China's traditional knowledge and values of the field were talked in the last part. The emergence of new knowledge has changed the original knowledge and cognitive structure of the Chinese literati, changing from the traditional literature of science and technology to save society in a pragmatic change. Since the introduction of Western technology to influence China's Confucian tradition, some enlightened Western literati accepted the Western rational, pragmatic and the pursuit of social effects. Anti- Nihilist thought that the western knowledge should be actively absorbed in order to improve the characteristics of the end-of-school of Confucianism. On the other side, some literati identified the importance of the seriousness of moral cultivation. They wanted to hold China's Confucian tradition but also wanted to accept the western knowledge at the same time.The important of this paper is that missionaries introduced the western technology to China's traditional knowledge of the natural science and humanities with knowledge missionary. The western knowledge changed China's Confucian tradition and values.