Court,Shilin,Folk:The Writing and Evolution of Wang Yangming's Image in the Middle and Late Ming Dynasties
Wang Yangming's image creation has three dimensions,namely,the writing of court historians,the penmanship of scholars in the Ming Dynasty,and the legends of civil society.From the perspective of the imperial court,Wang Yangming con-forms to the basic literacy of the traditional eunuch identity,focusing on the social responsibility and moral identity of officials;In the eyes of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty,Wang Yangming was not only a participant in the bureaucratic system,but also an ex-plorer of the Confucian ideological system,which also gave Wang Yangming the quality of a"teacher";In civil society,Wang Yangming's image is highly consistent with his historical achievements,and can fulfill the people's requirements and expectations for"heroic"figures.The evolution of writing in different dimensions constitutes the historical construction of Wang Yangming's im-age,and has become an indispensable and important part of the history of Wang Yangming's doctrine acceptance.