Huang Zongxi's View of Favoring Feeling and Emotion and His Poem-teaching Outlook

Huang Zongxi's view of favoring feeling and emotion is based on emotion and characterized by pursuing true feelings and opposing vulgar emotions.Huang's outlook on poetic values following Confucius' concept of feeling and emotion not only displays the poem-teaching nature of his view of favoring feeling and emotion but also distinguishes his view from the view of favoring emotion in the late Ming Dynasty and from Yuan Mei's vulgar view in the middle Qing Dynasty.Huang's cultural reflections after the collapse of the Ming Dynasty consolidate poetry's role of moral teaching.In addition,Huang opposes the practice of judging a poem's value in accordance with the times and effectively breaks away with sectarian bias so as to raise the status of poetry in the Song Dynasty from a theoretical perspective.The formation of Huang's view of favoring feeling and emotion is related to the social environment Huang lived in,trend of thought in the poetic circle,and influence of his teachers and friends.