An Analysis Of Wang Dao Kun's Conception Of Hermit

Wang Daokun(1525 ~ 1593),also known as Wang Shoukun.His countesy name was Boyu and the art name was Gao Yang Sheng,or Nan Ming.The name of his housing was called Tai Han,and his works also named < Tai Chi Set>.In this book,Wang Daokun called himself “Big sima”.His hometown was in the county of She of Huizhou Prefecture.WangDaokun passed an important exam in the year of 1547,which could decide him to become a part of an official in Ming dynasty.He once also helped another general called Qi Ji Guang toexterminate the pirates who invading coastal areas.He was dismissed for the blaming from supervisors of Ming empire and soon went back to the county She,spending eighteen years in there.In the time,he applied himself to writing poetries,and compiled collections which having a sheer size.< Tai Chi Seti>was a total of 120 volumes book,whose content was complex,and the most important was the writing about Hui Zhou businessmen in it.Mr Fujii considered the < Tai Chi Set> as the treasure of the historical wealth of HuiZhou businessmen in the "Xin'an businessmen study.It was noteworthy that Wang Daokun also writted into some characters of the HuiZhou businessmen,who was noble-hearted.He called those men hermits.The first part of this article is the interpretation of the recluse in the traditional Confucian concept of hermits.Throughout the recluse biography in the "twenty-four histories",no one is not a learned hermit recorded,they had a noble virtue,with the ability to be the official originally but no one to be,and refusing official recruitment by the way of reclusion in order to shape the image of recluse in the traditional Confucian concept,highlighting the value of the recluse concept.The second part of this article is the analysis of recluse view of Wang Daokun.After the interpretation of the image of the recluse in the < Tai Chi Set>,it is found that the recluse in the < Tai Chi Set> are all businessmen,and their conduct is noble,and taking Confucian ethics as the norm of behavior.Through the comparison with the recluse in the traditional Confucianism in the first part of this article,to clarify Wang Daokun's reclusion view about businessmen.In this paper,the third part is about the formation of Wang Daokun's businessman hermit concept.This paper is mainly from Wang Daokun personal factors(the background of businessman,worshipping the theory of Wang Yangming),period of social and economic factors(the rise of businessmen status,the influence of Wang Yangming's theory),the hometown of HuiZhou(mercantilist ethos,the values ofHuiZhou)three aspects to introduce.In this paper,the fourth part is about the view comments of Wang Daokun's hermit concept.On the one hand,this part is through the analysis of the rising status of businessmen and the development of commodity economy since the tang and song dynasty to reveal the inevitability of the formation of Wang Daokun's hermit concept;on the other hand,Wang Daokun is a literary master across Jiajing,longqing and Wanli three times,his concept that businessmen are hermit also produces important influence on the other scholars;other moreover,Wang Daokun's hermit concept also exists obvious limitation.