Wear Good Adherent Research

Dai Liang, one of the surviving adherents of the Yuan Dynasty, showed his loyalty to his dictator even with committing a final suicide in the wartime. His behavior was greatly different with those of other intellectual who had wanted to be brain trusters of Zhu Yuanzhang. In general, of the whole life, Dai made friends with many persons but of Confucian mind, composed lots of poems and essays, experienced much and behaved with the only principle of loyalty. His obvious showing of traditional Confucianism came from not only the education he had received, but also his experience.The mind of the surviving adherent affected Dai and made his fatal tragedy come into being at last. It mainly rooted in the academic thought he had received, the troublous times he had lived in, the disaster of the life he had experienced, and so on. With the view of the psychology of aging and developmental psychology, the depression resulted from sadness and dismal in Dai's old age was important for his suicide. These all reflected on his literature.Dai's achievements in politics and literature were no match for those of his classmate, Song Lian, but he expressed his life in his own way. Especially, his suicide that showed non-cooperation to Zhu Yuanzhang lighted a spark of his life. Dai received the same education with Song, but he chose a different way to express his life and it further proved his firm loyalty to the Yuan Dynasty.