| Abstract |
Since the middle period of Ming Dynasty, traveling had been very popular with the scholars. Through their inspiration and quick witted mind, they, with a lovely pen, wrote up the local fantastic views into their travel notes, which showed their inner dialogues between the prevalent tendencies and customs of normal human feelings and nature beauty. While reading those travel notes, people can not only understand tacitly the tones and writing styles of scholars’ travel notes, but also picture and sort out the impressive humanity scenes, filled with the beauties wearing their make-up on and the flourishing, confused noises of the streets and cities, and popular amazing landscapes. But obviously, it cannot completely be summarized only by a happy turn of phrase of their fresh tones and writing styles in the travel notes. This study is undertaken in the hope of leading to a better understanding of the travel notes, written by Li Liu-fang(李流芳) and Yuan Hong-dao(袁宏道). They gave a vivid description of the outskirts where people visited with the splendid scenery and flowery language, such as the relaxed atmosphere of listening to the songs which were like the wind filled the air, sweating like raindrops from women’s powdered faces, dressing up in expensive, gorgeous clothing, which are the core and subject of this study. With making a survey of contemporary scholars’ inner feelings, this study will show you the choice of which one they wrote and emphasized more about: the fantastic views or the stunning beauties, which is also the focus the author develops in detail. Furthermore, it also gives you the process of how the established literature field accepted such kinds of literary works. Thus, this study can help you to comprehend and reconstruct the scholars’ choice through appraising the qualities of their elaborate, impressive descriptions and inner dialogues.
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