The Illation of Civil Culture: The Essential Motivation of Tour Fashion in Late Ming Dynasty

Obviously, the civil culture in late Ming Dynasty, which was mainly characterized of opposing to obscurantism and asceticism, was a new culture in our country's late feudal society. It had great guidance meaning to lots of societal activities. So far as the tour fashion in late Ming Dynasty was concerned, the civil culture, which revealed and criticized to traditional NeoConfucianism, and admired to flesh and blood, humanity, happiness and freedom, had provided thought to the conception of tour in late Ming Dynasty. It represented the change of intellectual life style and awakening of self-consciousness, added to some new cultural value and aesthetic feeling, and made tour activity more energetic. It had also brought up an overweening cultural personality, and its cultural rays of light had bathed the tour minds and words and deeds of intellectual in late Ming Dynasty.