Theory Of Shiji Sergeant - Psychological Structure Of Culture

Shih Chi is the first comprehensive biographic history book in China, in which the authorSima Qian adopts the way of writing biographies for historical persons to show the ups anddowns of their life, according to which to present the changes of history. There are altogethertwelve biographic sketches of emperors, thirty renowned families and seventy biographies,among which Sima Qian pays mainly describe a group of scholars who have positive pursuetowards value and strong moral spirit. These scholars are greatly different in history backgroundand class position, but they have something in common in spirit: they hold tight their dependentpersonality, care for their countries and people, lay themselves in the society and they lookforward to the realization of their personal value. At the same time, they seriously obey the moralprinciple, pay attention to their personal moral cultivation, emphasize the improvement of moralspirit and personalities and under the principle of moral self-discipline, they range their wills andactions into morality. Compared with the vanity preexistence and eternity, they emphasize moreabout the meaning of the present life. This kind of practical world view leads them to pay moreattention to the reality, from which forms the philosophy of practical statecraft. This culturesense of pursuing for the realization of personal value and moral spirit has become acommonness, which has grown into the unconscious mind of Chinese and become the thinkingtendency and value tendency of Chinese. This also makes up the common psychology state andcharacters of Chinese people and forms the culture psychology mechanism in the culture circleof China. Scholar group in Shih Chi insist the improvement of personality and the protection ofpersonal dignity, regard morality as their own task, have strong moral spirit, realize thesublimation of the group sense during the spirit pursue beyond themselves, will not yield topower and violence, so that to reach the deep humanity care towards the reality. The spirit ofseeking for the way of life and pursuing the realization of personal value showed by them is justthe external reflection of Chinese national culture-psychology structure.The introduction introduces the background, present condition, reason and significance ofthe research, which points out that although the research about scholars in Shih Chi isremarkable, research from the aspect of national culture-psychology is rare so as to show thenecessity of the research and lead into the topic.The first part analyzes the concrete images of scholars in Shih Chi and according to thedescription of Confucius, Mencius, Qu Yuan and Yu Rang the thesis analyzes the pursue ofrealization of personal value and strong moral spirit in the scholar group. The second part explain the culture psychology concealed in the pursue of value and moralspirit from the aspects of development of society and history and culture psychology.The third part explores the effect of the scholars’ culture psychology towards the selectionof scholars from the aspects of pursue of personal value and insistence of moral spirit.The fourth part explain the Chinese culture—psychology structure showed by the scholarsin Shih Chi from the aspects of the obey of moral principles and the improvement ofpersonalities.The conclusion generalize the affection of this kind of culture—psychology structureshowed by the scholars in Shih Chi towards the following generation.