Viewing Xu Dishan's Religious Solicitude from his Sacred Rain in the Empty Mountains

Xu Dishan is unique in the modern literary history in China. His uniqueness lies not in his art but in hi extraordinary religious solicitude. His religious concern is characterized by containing all and differing from others. He put this religious thought into his writing, which makes perfect both his writing and his thought. Prose can be easily used to express the author's real feelings and mental world. Therefore, by interpreting his Sacred Rain in the Empty Mountains, the readers can discover that in his work Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism are in harmony, but at the same time, he is beyond the traditional spirit and relies on Christianity. More specifically, he uses a Buddhist thought of inborn unhappiness as the basic point of view and emotional tone for examining the life, the Taoist thought of conforming to nature as the walking in this world, but in the end turn to Christian's caritas and responsibility as the resting place.