A Culutral City Called Tongcheng:Tongcheng Literati And Tongcheng Society In The Late Ming And Early Qing Dynasties

Tongcheng has always been known as the "literary capital" of the literary troupe,with the emergence of the famous Tongcheng School in the Qing Dynasty.The end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty is an important period for the rise and development of Tongcheng school.However,the academic circle has not paid enough attention to Tongcheng scholars in this stage.In view of this,this paper mainly discusses how Tongcheng scholars,after the change of the era,can promote the formation of Tongcheng,which will affect the construction of Tongcheng school.In the late Ming Dynasty,due to the political changes,the society appeared an extremely active situation of ideology and culture.Under this impetus,the development of local culture in Tongcheng tended to flourish.At this time,the cultural and educational undertakings in Tongcheng were also carried out,which was manifested in the rise of teaching places such as social schools and guildhalls.At the same time,it also gave birth to the ethos of lecturing in Tongcheng,which made Tongcheng scholars deeply educated by Confucianism begin to worry about the current situation and show a strong sense of social responsibility.During this period,the cultural activities showed the flourishing of Tongcheng's cultural ethos.At the time of the Dynasty Replace,the central government began to loosen,and it was difficult for local governments to enjoy peace alone.Because of the dangerous geographical location,Tongcheng was repeatedly invaded by the war and fire at the end of the Ming Dynasty.However,the scholars were very active in the turmoil,and began to pay attention to their sources.Because of the consideration of protecting themselves and their families,their political choices tended to be complicated and tortuous.Although different choices were differentiated,the scholars still paid attention to the governance activities of local society,actively cooperated with the government and participated in the process of chaos control,which made the town preserved to a certain extent It highlights the cohesion of Tongcheng scholars.In the early Qing Dynasty,Tongcheng was devastated by the war,and scholars began to participate in the reconstruction of Tongcheng society.On the one hand,scholars kept a better cultural context by continuing the communication fashion in Tongcheng at the end of Ming Dynasty.On the other hand,although Tongcheng scholars'communication network expanded at the beginning of Qing Dynasty,it still continued the original communication circle.The communication path spanned Tongcheng,spread all over the south of the Yangtze River,and expanded the communication path of Tongcheng culture invisibly.In the end,scholars who had experienced the Yi Dynasty put themselves back into the participation of local affairs in the new dynasty,and continued their original sense of social responsibility.It can be seen that through the efforts of scholars,Tongcheng culture in the early Qing Dynasty actually continued the development of Ming Dynasty.The rise of Tongcheng school is a process of continuous development,which is closely related to the efforts of scholars in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty.In the process of building Tongcheng school's academic discourse power,scholars praised the favorable factors for the development of Tongcheng school,eliminated the unfavorable factors hindering the development of Tongcheng school,and reevaluated and integrated the scholars in Tongcheng school,which made the school prosperous and famous in the Qing Dynasty.