Survival of the People Who Becoming ‘Tao Chan’ and Their Way of Thinking in the End of Ming Dynasty and Beginning of Qing Dynasty: Concerning “Daily Note Jia Xing”

Adherents of former Dynasty appeared at everytime of historical unrest in the past dynasties. Particularly, the most adherents appeared at the time of the end of Ming Dynasty and beginning of Qing Dynasty. Facing the changes of dynasty, they responded sensitively to the issue of restoring old dynasty and their survival. So they showed a variety of way of existence. Generally, the adherents appeared to resist the new regime or die for the old dynasty as being dual identity, i.e., a scholar and an adherent. However, it’s remarkable that becoming a ‘Tao Chan’ was current particularly at the time of change of Ming, Qing Dynasty. ‘Since the end of Ming Dynasty, many adherents became monk’. There were so many imperial officials who had became ‘Tao Chan’ at the time of change of Ming, Qing Dynasty that the number is uncountable. In addition, the adherents showed a regional distribution following the route that Nanming regime moved along. Wuzhong area was one of those encountered with most harsh invasion of Qing army and there were most people who became Buddhist. From the point of view as above, we will need a specific analysis in that, why there were so many people who became ‘Tao Chan’, why they chose such way, what a life they led after becoming ‘Tao Chan’, what an emotion as adherents they had, and what characteristics and meaning of the times the phenomenon of becoming ‘Tao Chan’ showed. This paper is intended to make an analysis on the life and emotion of Ye Shao yuan(葉紹袁), as an adherent, who was a member of a literay clan in Wujiang area in the end of Ming Dynasty with the ‘Daily Note Jia Xing’ by Ye Shao yuan. The main content covers four parts as follows. First, we would take a look into the background where the people escaped for zen at the time of change of Ming, Qing Dynasty, and what is the political, social and personal background from which Ye Shao yuan chose to become a ‘Tao Chan’. Second, we would like to examine the moving course after he chose to become a ‘Tao Chan’ and his exile life. Third, We would anylize the emotion as an adherent and the train of thought he had. Lastly, I thought about the relationship between ‘Tao chan’ and survival for him. In the course of analysis, we would deal with the details of the way of thinking by Ye Shao yuan such as in the loss of country and death of family members, and losing hope, despair and expectation for restoring Ming Dynasty. Through above analysis, we would get to understand the background of escaping to become ‘Tao Chan’, thinking and emotion as an adherent, and meaning and survival with becoming a ‘Tao Chan’, etc.