A Writer's Mentality:Zhang Xuecheng's New Perspective Towards Traditional Moral Character of Historian

As a historian and philosopher who anticipated himself to be a scholar,Zhang Xuecheng attached more importance on discussing assays than grandiose essays,where discourses on moral character of historian have more academic hues.Although his theory of moral character follows the sentences about harmonization of traditional essays on morals,which,however,is new wine in old bottles.He talked about the moral character by the debate over the characteristics of man and nature,which surpassed the ordinary essays on morals,also described more with the connotation of the debate over nature and man compared with the simplex theory of characters,which belongs to the profundity of academy illustrating the way.The general includes the respect when approaching something new,the clemency while criticizing the ancient works and responsibility when uttering for the public.Whereas,the utmost of his theory on moral character and academic works is the pursuit of devotion and harmony of man and nature.