The Reception Of Zeng Gong’s Prose In Ming And Qing Dynasties

As one of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song dynasties,Zeng Gong’s prose resear ch is slightly bleak compared to the other seven great masters,and there are very few papers on his prose acceptance research.Zeng Gong’s prose is full of Confucianism,and his creation emphasizes writing to convey the truth,and he has been well-known since the Song Dynasty.The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the prosperous period of the development of Zeng Gong’s prose.Zeng Gong’s Prose was influenced by the social politics and cultural thoughts at that time,and was praised and accepted by social literati.As a master of prose in the Song Dynasty,Zeng Gong inherited the profound family thoughts of the Zeng family,and absorbed the ancient essay creation theory advocated by Ouyang Xiu.The prose argumentation is thorough.The original six classics are the classics in the development of literature in the Ming and Qing dynasties.The creation of literati in Ming and Qing dynasties provided new literary thinking and creative ideas.This article is divided into three chapters.The introduction part mainly introduces the significance of the topic and the research direction and content of Zeng Gong in recent years.The first chapter is about Zeng Gong’s biography and thought exploration.The mellow Confucianism and elegant and plain artistic style presented in Zeng Gong’s prose are inseparable from Zeng Gong’s profound family history,personal experience,and the social and cultural environment at that time.The Zeng family has a deep affection for Confucian culture since Zeng Gong’s great-grandfather generation,and they are determined to take Confucian classics as the object of learning.Zeng Gong has been influenced and influenced by the family atmosphere since he was a child,and has a unique cognition and experience of Confucian culture and thought.In addition,Zeng Gongyi’s life path was turbulent,he experienced ruggedness,and the experience of studying under Ouyang Xiu,which made his prose thought and style present differ ent characteristics in different periods.In the early period,he was arrogant and elegant in the later period,and he became more and more mature.Prudent,more ideological and Taoist.At that time,the rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty also favored Confucian classics,strongl advocated Confucian culture,and regarded Confucian classics and Confucianism as the content of the examination of scholars in the imperial examination.Therefore,most social literati at that time advocated Confucianism.Under the dual effects of the family atmosphere and the national political system,Zeng Gong’s prose has a strong Confucianism,elegant and plain language,elegant style,and profound discussion,providing a model and theoretical basis for the creation of later generations of literati with far-reaching significance.The second chapter is the research on the acceptance of Zeng Gong’s prose in the Ming Dynasty.This chapter first briefly describes the acceptance of Zeng Gong’s prose before the Ming Dynasty,and understands the development process of Zeng Gong’s prose in the Song and Yuan Dynasty.The Ming Dynasty was a rising period in the development and acceptance of Zeng Gong’s prose.Affected by the social retro thoughts,the imperial examination system and the development of the publishing industry,Zeng Gong’s prose began to be widely circulated and accepted during this period.On the one hand,the Ming Dynasty government established the orthodox position of Confucianism and required the imperial examination system to be based on the Confucian classic culture.Zeng Gong was respected in the Ming Dynasty because his prose conformed to the standards of the imperial examination.On the other hand,the ideological trend of restoring the ancients prevailed in the social culture of the Ming Dynasty,and Neo-Confucianism therefore occupied a dominant position in the development of social culture.Literati and literary schools in the Ming Dynasty either advocated learning Qin and Han literary,or advocated learning Tang and Song literary,which provided an opportunity for the development of Zeng Gong’s prose.Among them,the Tangsong School,as one of the influential literary schools in the Ming Dynasty,learned from the Tang and Song dynasties,and vigorously advocated and respected the Tang and Song literary,and especially emphasized the Song literary in the Tang and Song literary.As one of the great masters of Song Dynasty,Zeng Gong was highly praised by them during this period and got further development.The third chapter is the reception research of Zeng Gong’s prose in the Qing Dynasty.Judging from the implementation of the political system in the Qing Dynasty,the development of social and cultural thoughts and the evaluation of Zeng Wen by literati,Zeng Gong’s prose had a greater position in the history of literature in the Qing Dynasty than in the Ming Dynasty,reaching a heyday.Confucianism still prevailed in the Qing Dynasty,which provided a good development environment for Zeng Gong’s acceptance in the Qing Dynasty.Regarding the political system,the rulers of the Qing Dynasty implemented a high-handed policy of obtaining scholars in a stereotyped manner and literary prison,which made literati easily afraid to make arrogant discussions about political affairs,and they were even more cautious in literary creation,as if walking on thin ice.Zeng Gong’s prose was praised and praised by many rulers in the Qing Dynasty because of its mellow and elegant prose,and became a model for literati in the Qing Dynasty to study and create.The image of Neo-Confucianism was deeply rooted in the Qing Dynasty.In the Qing Dynasty,Zeng Gong’s ancient essay creation theory and prose style were highly praised by the literati school dominated by the Tongcheng School,and his literary works became a model for the Qing literati to study.Judging from the Qing Dynasty literati’s evaluation of Zeng Gong’s prose and the selection of Zeng Gong’s essays in the selection of ancient essays in the Qing Dynasty,Zeng Gong’s prose was supreme in the eyes of the rulers and social literati in the Qing Dynasty.Zeng Gong’s prose was in the Qing society.The acceptance level is obviously better than that of the Ming Dynasty.The concluding remarks once again summarized the acceptance of Zeng Gong’s prose in the Ming and Qing dynasties on the basis of the full text,and affirmed the literary value of Zeng Gong’s prose and its influence on later generations.Through the analysis of the acceptance of Zeng Gong’s prose in the Ming and Qing Dynasties,we not only have a more comprehensive understanding of the development and acceptance of Zeng Gong’s prose in different periods,but also have a preliminary understanding and grasp of Zeng Gong’s literary thoughts and writing styles.People have a deeper understanding of the value and artistic characteristics of Zeng Gong’s prose.