On the Cultural Mentality of the Scholar-officials in the Song Dynasty

The scholar-officials in the Song Dynasty lived in the period when the social was transforming.Since the dissimilarity of the social history environment between the Song Dynasty and the former dynasty,their culture mentality also presented a distinctive feature.They focused on moral,pursued the life of the exterior world,and held back to keep introversion.In a sense,all these characters were closely related to the social cultural environment at that time.