In the Ming Dynasty, Confucianism was the basic principle of ethics, and the whole social culture was dominated by Zhu Xi’s Neo-Confucianism. Coupled with the development of ancient education and the reform of the imperial examination system, the education at that time also made Neo-Confucianism develop and spread continuously. In this atmosphere, the thoughts of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism have been gradually politicized under the interference of the imperial power and become a favorable tool to strengthen the centralization of power. At the same time, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty liked to interfere in literature, which also affected the natural development of literature, resulting in the early Ming dynasty literati’s “living-a-life” starting from politics rather than literature.

Li Tingting. The Reconstruction of Ideology and the Political Intervention in Literature in the Early Ming Dynasty. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2022) Vol. 5, Issue 11: 51-54. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2022.051111.

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