Wu Wenhua’s Study Of Confucian Classics And Literature

Wu Wenhua was a minister of virtue,talent,meritorious service and literary talent in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.Jimeitang Ji(eight volumes)is a collection of Wu Wenhua’s major poetic writings.Taking this book as research material,this paper will first conduct a comprehensive review of Wu Wenhua’s time background,life and social situation,and interpret and explain the contents of the works included in Jimeitang Ji(eight volumes)focusing on the relationship between classics and literature in Wu Wenhua’s works,in order to gain some results.This paper is divided into four chapters,the fiesta chapter of Wu Wenhua’s life comb,listing Wu Wenhua in the official career of the court courtiers,scholars and military officials and their poems and essays.The second chapter takes Wu Wenhua’s works of poetry and literature as the research object,sums up the quotations of Confucian classics in his works,or quotes the words and sentences in them,or interprets their meanings.As well as the Confucian classical discourse as the subject of interpretation on play.The third chapter discusses the relationship between Wu Wenhua’s poetic creation and Yangming’s mind theory,his communication with the inheritor of Yangming’s mind theory,and the integration and elucidating of Yangming’s mind theory in Wenhua’s poetic works.The fourth chapter discusses and analysis the Confucian thoughts and Confucian classics contained in Wenhua’s poems and works.Wenhua was an official who was skillful in arranging soldiers,responding to changing circumstances,regulating military affairs,and clearly rewarding and punishing,which reflected his loyalty and patriotism.Set up the county system,build schools,love the people,outstanding achievements,reflected his rules as a vassal.Being courteous and respectful,respecting his superiors,and loving his subordinates,shows that his respects and abides by the norms of Confucian thought and Confucian classics on etiquette education.The harmony of his family and the benefit of his hometown show his Confucian ideology in social and family ethics besides his official career.