From The "three Words" Feng Meng Works "elegance" And A "conventional" Adaptation

In the traditional concept, ancient literature has been divided into tow parts:"elegant literature"and"common literature". They could not cross the boundaries with each other clearly and easily."elegant literature"always represent the traditional literature like poem and prose;"common literature"always represent the novel, drama and others . Well, novel, drama have always been excluded from the traditional literary circle, they couldn't access elegant literary easily.Ming Dynasty could be considered as a special era in Chinese ancient literature history because of the emergence of capitalist, the rise of Wangyangming's heart philosophy and public people's literature. The value-oriented literature had changed gradually. The appearance of new readership and the updating moral values showed another historical trend which pounded at the ancient ideas continuously including the folk songs, drama and novels. After late Ming dynasty, the class of common people went up the stage of society, their logical thinking and literary life filled up the literature. Wang philosophy which was represented by Wang Yangming, Wang Shouren, Wanggen, based on social current and social request to make Confucianism more secular, and also make the drama, novels and other ordinary folk literature rooted in Confucianism humanity deeply.FengMenglong was a controversy people in this time. He didn't have a large achievement in political career, but he concentrated in writing folk songs, novels, drama, jokes, Confucian classics, and other popular culture all his life. His complex work and complex thinking were the focal point of scholars. Feng walked back and forth between traditional and modern thinking. This condition reflected in Feng's work was the Characteristic of"elegant"and"common". Although Feng pay a great interest in common literature, his inherent sense of social responsibility didn't disappeared. The political sense and moral responsibility made him want to build a "great harmony" community to save the common people who lived in a chaotic society.The assignment of the first chapter is to summarize the present situation of the research and to point out the focal points of the paper.The purpose of the second chapter is to inspect the reason of Feng's writing through philosophy and literature environment of Ming dynasty. In philosophy environment, the impact he accepted mainly from WangYangming, LeeZhi and TangXianzu. Their theories urged the emergency of the"emotion theory"which penetrated in his literature. With the growing forces of the common people, the public culture such as novel, folk songs, drama and others made a big prosperity. FengMenglong began to use writing as a stage to show his self-scholarship and to make a living.