Based on Returning to My Farm to Walden to Analyze the Hermit Culture in Chinese and West

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10.2991/assehr.k.211120.068How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Hermit culture; Confucianism; Taoism; Tao Yuanming; Thoreau

Abstract

Highly developed science and technology are used as tools to liberate people from heavy manual labor. But with the haze of war and economic depression, the original moral system is on the verge of collapsing. What’s worse, People is assimilated by machines and is losing their uniqueness as human beings. Given this, the twentieth century is an era of loss of faith and some people have returned to nature to find the paradise they hoped for, and the legendary hermit culture has re-entered people’s field of vision and research. This article compares the literary work of Tao Yuanming and Thoreau, two representatives of Chinese and Western hermit cultures, and finds that the Chinese and Western hermit cultures have the same philosophical foundation. What the hermits pursue is not to gain fame and fortune by means of retreat, but to search for the identity of self-worth in nature.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhang Peilin
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/29
TI  - Based on Returning to My Farm to Walden to Analyze the Hermit Culture in Chinese and West
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 3rd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 363
EP  - 367
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211120.068
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211120.068
ID  - Peilin2021
ER  -