从小品文看晚明文人心态

Exploring the Mentality of Scholars from the Perspective of Essays in Late Ming Dynasty

形式轻灵、隽永,体制短小精炼而富有个性化的小品文,是晚明文人心灵的宣言书。通过对小品文的解读,可以看到晚明文人慢慢走出"异端"思想的影响,对于社会现实给予重新审视,希图找到一条能够调和礼制与人欲的路径。在他们苦苦思索之后,依然未能寻出一丝新的光线,于是陷入彷徨苦闷近于虚无的情境之中。然而,这种状态却是朴学新思潮到来的思想上的准备。

The flexible and meaningful individuated short essays of late Ming dynasty were the proclamation of the scholars of that time. Through interpreting those essays, we can see that the scholars at that time had gradually excluded themselves from the influences of heterodox thoughts and began to re-examine the society from a new perspective in the hope of finding a new way for harmonizing the relationships between social institutions and human desires. However, in spite of their efforts, they failed to do so, leading to their depressed and flatulent mood which made themselves prepare mentally for the arrival of new thought of simple and plain learning.