The Friendship between the Nine Writers in Yitang and Literary Officials in Early Period of the Qing Dynasty

The group of nine Writers in Yitang,led by Wei Xi who was one of three famous writers in the early Qing Dynasty,was a model of association of adherents of the Ming Dynasty,and had distinctive characteristics of the times.Except for writing and teaching,making friends was their additional undertaking,and exerted especially the survival of the ideal of the adherents of the Ming Dynasty and had a rich cultural meaning.Except for adherents and monks and taoist priests,literary officials of the Qing Dynasty were their central object,such as Wang Shizhen,Song Luo,Shi Runzhang and so on.So,we can also understand their the toughest choices in the anxiety of the out and hidden.