Yan Fu's "Tian Yan Lun"'s Research On The Integration Of Chinese And Western Cultures

As a book of scientific exposition in modern and contemporary China,evolution of heaven has important enlightenment and literature research significance at that time and even now.As the author of evolution,yan fu undoubtedly became a pioneer of the enlightenment of modern Chinese thought,but the book was controversial at that time.Because the concept of natural selection preached by him is quite different from the traditional thoughts,the birth and release of "evolution of heaven" brought a huge impact on the thoughts of the Chinese people in the late qing dynasty.As he was already living in the stormy society of the late qing dynasty,yan fu experienced various difficulties in compiling the novel.He studied Huxley's theory of evolution and ethics,and the different theories and ideas of evolution between Darwin and spencer,and supplemented them with his own translation techniques.On this basis,he also integrated the traditional thoughts of the Chinese nation,such as Buddhism,Confucianism,Taoism,etc.,into the "evolution of heaven",so that the book is a work involving a variety of schools of thought.The book is the result of yan fu's integration of Chinese and western cultural thoughts,and in the translation process,yan fu intended to connect Huxley's original book with traditional Chinese Buddhism,Confucianism and Taoism,so as to achieve the purpose of easy acceptance and dissemination of Chinese thoughts.At first,for the Chinese nation has a long history and large buddhist faith foundation,yan fu for text within the system were studied,and draw lessons from the buddhist scripture translation methods on the western different views on the concept of Buddhism,separately carried on the detailed elaboration,on this basis,yan fu himself learned knowledge of traditional culture,namely Confucianism also doping,thereby formed the Buddha,western,Confucianism,achieve mastery through a comprehensive study of three kinds of thought.The change thought in the Confucian book yi jing is similar to the natural selection idea of yan fu,while the Confucian master xunzi's idea of "governing the destiny and using it" is similar to the western idea of "fighting with the sky".At the same time,he also analyzes and expounds the differences and similarities between his understanding of sex and that of Confucianism.Finally,yan fu studied the Taoist concept of nature and the western theory of evolution.It should be recognized that yan fu made use of China's local culture to translate western works,and formed his own unique translation methods of "faithfulness","expressiveness" and "elegance" in his works,and then he wrote academic works that were easier to understand by Chinese people at that time,thus exerting a great influence on the government,society and people in the late qing dynasty.Which yan fu in mastery of the method used in the translation,is actually a reflection of the junction of Chinese and western culturedeeper penetration,also it is because of yan fu's bold innovation,enabling people to understand is western prosperity,yan fu's theory of natural selection,formed its own unique day in philosophy,no matter from the historical value and modern value,both Chinese and western cultural exchange and dissemination of produced great influence,its system of translation theory and research is still widely read.