On the Ideological Origin of Yuan Zongdao's Literary Concept

Yuan Zongdao was one representative of Gong An school scholars in the late Ming Dynasty,whose literary concept had a close contact with the then social and cultural background.On the whole,the cultural enlightenment thought in the late Ming Dynasty,together with the thoughts of Li Zhi,Bai Juyi and Su Shi,had exerted an important impact on the formation of Yuan Zongdao's literary concept.