中国隐士

They were not the ordinary members of the society, and they were also not like ordinary people into the mountains. They walked “the Walk of Yu”, which liked a wounded animal dragging one foot to arouse the sympathy of the mountains god. Liked Da Yu---“the Walk of Yu” was named after his name---they were Shamans, who were the magician in ancient China...

In whole the Chinese history, there are always some persons would like to spend their

whole lives in the mountains. They ate less, dressed very broken and slept in the cottage. They opened up virgin soil on the mountains; they were rarely speaking and their writings left were more less, perhaps only a few poems or two unique recipes. They are out of touch with the times but not out of line with the seasons. They give up the dirt of the plain and like the clouds on the mountains. They had a long history but unknown to the public, and they stand for the spirit and are respected by the people in the ancient society.

How the Shamans became the hermits? Until at the end of the third millennium B.C, Shamans was still occupied an important position in the Chinese Neolithic Culture. However, during the second millennium and the third millennium, it’s also during the initial period of the Chinese nation,

urbanization

and

social

class

differentiation were the principal character, which appearance led to the crisis of survival of Shamans. With the development of the urbanization and the social class differentiation, the process

of decision-making became more and more bureaucratic. The changes made Shamans’ positions were distracted by people day by day. The Shamans’ affects were instead by the influence of the bureaucracy.

Through the analysis of inscription on bones of the second millennium B.C. One expert said: the belief in the gods had been weakened, and also the natural myth and the mythical ancestor were disappearing. Shamans communicated with god was so stylization, when they drunk the medicinal liquor, their b bureaucratic heir order them to spit it out. This stylization resolves the Shamans’ fate in court. In court, the process of the Shamans communicated with god was replaced by the ceremonial behaviors. People thought these behaviors themselves were efficacious. Hardly imagine, they were lift down from their Shamans which were their root of culture.

With the development of civilization, Shamans became close to the mountains, instead of to the people who lived in the city center. Though

the changes of the history, they were the beginning of the modern eremites.

Chinese always admired and respected the hermits, no one ever explain and also no one ask to explain. Their history can be dated back constantly rotating, and hermits also adapt the new environment, in addition, they do not disappear, eventually they live in mountains, especially the Zhongananshan. Which is the best choice for the hermits. In ancient times, some people interpret it for “Moon Mountains”. It’s said that where the sun and the moon sleep in. This is one of the cities of god located in the mystical mountains, and the house of the Cynthia, too. Therefore, this place becomes the best choice for some people to come here to approach the spirit and potencies of the Cynthia. As a result, this place is a heaven of the hermits. There are many places suit for living in to seclusion, and there are many caves and hermits lived in can’t be disturbed and benefit for the monastic life.

Through the ancient and the modern, the hermits play an important role in Chinese culture. For example, in the period of Eastern Jin and the Southern Dynasty, Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove is a typical representative of China culture and also they are apart of the China culture. They are seven persons and often lived under bamboo of the

Shanyang county and liked drinking, vertical song,

wanton heartily, so ordinary people called them Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. Their works and

thoughts to be known by people, such as, yonghuai, the mountain giant source John book, Lord Pass and

so on. Their metaphysical thoughts have an important influence at that time. What’s more, Spring and Autumn and the Warring States period, the “Guiguzi” is a famous and mysterious figures in history, known as the eternal legend, longer than the body mind, in the psychological figure, a deep understanding of rigid flexible trend, familiar with the operation be perpendicular and horizontal Babel, unique wisdom. His work had a far-reaching influence on the latter generations,

and also is very important to military and interpersonal communication. His apprentices are also very famous, at that time they are the heroes and become popular for a time. There also a man is important in China history, Tao Yuanming, known as latent, he is a great poet and have a great influence on generations. The three figures are famous hermits in China history, but they are a part of the culture of Chinese hermits. There

are many hermits worth to study in China history. Through study and research for the hermits, not only let us know the historical figures, but also let us understand the background they lived, which will help a lot more to our own development, and play an important role in interpersonal communication and social practice.