Cultural Memory and Adherents'Obsession in Birthday Tributes—A Discussion Centered on Sun Xiong's Mingxian Shengri Shi
After the collapse of the Qing Dynasty,a group of literati who were unwilling to join the new regime formed a group of Qing Dynasty Adherents whose survival environment and cultural space were very different from the past.In the early Republic of China,due to the strong impact from Western civilization,Traditional Studies further declined.The wane of Dao Tong(the orthodox Confucian way)and the unbridled social status deeply disturbed the painful minds of these cultural adherents.Sun Xiong,an adherent of the Qing Dynasty,compiled the"Ming Xian Sheng Ri Shi(Poems from the Sacrificial Event on the Birthdays of Illustrious Figures)".A group of adherents participated in the sacrificial event to commemorate the birthdays of the Illustrious figures of the Qing Dynasty,aiming to set up the cultural model through cultural rituals that reflected their historical concept and obsession to carry forward the Dao Tong and to restore old culture and education.In fact,admiring the predecessors and looking back at the stars of Traditional Studies in the transitional era was a way for Qing Dynasty Adherents to rescue the disordered society.They gathered under this banner and found spiritual support in the pain and loneliness of being marginalized or even abandoned by society.In such a case,social redemption and self-redemption in a certain way became one with each other.
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