A Study Of Huang Zongxi 's "Thought Of The Old Record"

Thinking of the old is one of Huang Zongxi’s later works, which makes the character name as the title, describes Huang Zongxi’s recalls of 117 former friends. The recalls in the events which they have common experience, the friends’perfomance, character, anthology, and from the big events sufferings between life and death to the daily dialogue snippets, are all in the show. The article styles like biography, but is different with the traditional biography. the way of its historian narrative is unequivocally telling a story of an era.Academic research on Thinking of the old mainly embodied in the history of thought inquires, mostly cited as materials, so the literature research is relatively weak. There is no direct research treat Thinking of the old as a object in monographs and Master or PhD thesis. In this paper, the author tries to make the content of Thinking of the old as the center, in the interpretation of the connotation of ideology and culture, at the same time, inquiry the writing features of the works.This paper is divided into three parts. The first one is the foundation of creation. Huang Zongxi’s life experience and literary accomplishment is the foundation of the creation, due to the corresponding historical information in Thinking of the old and Huang Zongxi Chronicle, the first part that inquires the creation origin would mainly make them for reference.The second part is the ideological content. Huang Zongxi is a outstanding thinker in late Ming and early Qing.He have Vast works, many works were later on unfold from academic history and ideological history.Thinking of the old,although it is mainly to recall old friends. however, in addition to the account of the friendship also contains a more ideological content. To the special experience through from The Ming Dynasty to The Qing Dynasty, review of the recognition of loyalty, and involves many review of literature and art, and so on. The ideological content of thinking of the old to express the characters to the attention of the loyalty, Confucian traditional ideas of the friendship, and the lifestyles of scholar groups in late Ming Dynasty is also reflects in this way.The third part is the writing features. Any book would have its corresponding writing style, may be in a way that the author always keeps, and there also may be not apparently in the style of other works. However, since for the same author, similar stylish works still have many similarities. The writing features of the article, mainly expressed on the form of the character biographies, history of the blend, and self writing expressions, brocken in different lengths according to the depth of details, embodied in the retro and oddity of the writing styles of the text.Due to the limited reference information and research ability, the study of Thinking of the old is still a preliminary exploration which remains to be further improved in the future.