The School of Public Security is a literary school represented by Yuan Hongdao, his brother Yuan Zongdao and his brother Yuan Zhongdao during the Wanli period of Ming Shenzong (1573- 1620), and it was named after three Hubei public security people. Other authors of this school include Jiang Yingke, Tao Wangling and Huang Hui.
Their literary thoughts are in direct opposition to the ancient sayings of the former seven sons and the latter seven sons. They put forward the concept of literary development that "the world has changed, so has literature", and they also put forward the theory of "spiritual nature", demanding that their works "independently express their spiritual nature, not unconventional" and can directly express their feelings without carving.
Their prose opened up a new field of China's prose with a fresh and lively style. In the field of poetry and prose in the late Ming dynasty, the "public security school" is the most powerful.
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The literary thought of the Public Security School originated in Yuan Zongdao, with Yuan Hongdao as the backbone and actual leader, and Yuan Zhongdao further expanded its influence. The literary and artistic thoughts of the public security school mainly include:
1, opposing inheritance and advocating universal change:
Everyone in the public security school lashed out at the tendency of the former and the latter seven sons to imitate words and eat the ancient times, and they sharply criticized the phenomenon of "plagiarism is common practice and one word is spoken by all" in the literary world. Yuan Zongdao also hit the nail on the head and pointed out that the source of the retro school is "ignorance rather than imitation" (paper).
2, express the spirit alone, eclectic:
The so-called "soul" is the writer's personality and true feelings, which is close to Li Zhi's "childlike innocence".
3. Pay attention to folk novels and advocate popular literature;
The public security school attached importance to drawing nutrition from folk literature, which was related to its literary development view and innovative theory, and played a certain role in improving the social status of folk literature and popular literature at that time.
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