On Yan Fu's View Of History And National Reconstruction

The theory of strenghen the national body, enlighten the national mind and freshen the national morality is designed by YanFu for the challenge of the western civilization and the ruin of the nation, which was trying to promote the other aspects of the social revolution by means of the people reform. He reformed the national nature in order to get rid of the colonial yoke and push the person and even the nation into modem time. It is the idea of history contains evolutionism and social-organism mainly that the original theory is based on, which is introduced by means of the translations of the western classics which ever exerted the great influence on the historical progress of the modernization of western society. So the deavour of getting rid of the stale and taking in the fresh takes a touch of fresh into the boring field of thoughts.