The Best Literary Works Come from Tongchen:A Brief Textual Research to the literary origin on Tongcheng in Yunnan of Qing Dynasty
Although Yunnan in the Qing Dynasty was located in the southwest frontier,but through the development of generations,academic culture had made great progress.Literature field had integrated into the mainstream of the literary world at that time,becoming the world of Tongcheng school.Unfortunately,the academic community has rarely paid attention to this.According to the historical documents,there were 8 Yunnan scholars who had Tongcheng origin,86 Yunnan scholars who studied Tongcheng privately,17 Yunnan scholars who communicated with those scholars,and 1 Yunnan scholar as the student of Zhang Yingmen(according to Xu He Lai,who only traced the origin and was not included in the above three catego-ries),with a total of 112 Yunnan scholars.The rest of Yunan Schoolars who had Tongcheng oringin were countless.The in-fluence of the Tongcheng School on the cultural and academic development of Yunnan PROVINCE was not only seen in the number of Tongcheng School scholars in Yunnan,but also in the transfer of local academic atmosphere.To adopt the Tongcheng school and to use the standard of Tongcheng in studying,writing and appreciating ancient Chinese proses,had been a consensus in Yunnan academic circles in the Qing Dynasty and around the Xinhai Revolution.Understanding this will not only help us to deepen the understanding of the Tongcheng school,but also help us to deepen the development of the Chinese literature history in the Qing Dynasty,and more importantly,help us to deepen the understanding of the Chinese nation.