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Wen: pinyin for culture; civility.

Arts and Writing

Wen is vital to the teaching of Confucianism, Neo-Confucianism and Legalism and it has parallels across many themes within the concepts of Confucianism. Wen, civility and culture in Chinese, has many applications within the teachings of Confucianism and the larger society of China as it is taught via history. Wen is referenced many times throughout academia. For instance, music is a beloved concept for Confucian thought and is akin to civility as well as ritual. "As such, music is integral if not synonymous with culture (wen) a fact that Confucius taught with words and actions." Civility was the crux of Confucianism. It was the mode of family life and government life through filial piety. It was a culture of civility. The Legalism that was created for the civil government was also filled with the ideals of wen. The state exams were the mode of social mobility for young students. The art of writing was also an important part of the Confucian culture. “They returned to the ancient style prose (guwen) of the classical era as part of their program to regain the literary culture (wen) in the "Way" of the ancient sages." Wen, being of the utmost importance, was the dedicated culture of Confucianism in the art form of writing.

Politics

As much as the art of writing was important to those who learned proper form, it was a means to an end for rising within the ranks of the political culture. With the use of the censorate in historical Chinese society to hold officials to task, there were many needs for political officials. Morality was also a coveted ideal within the government and was considered to make for a more refined culture or wen. "Morality (de) and literate culture (wen) were keys to political power, according to Jia Yi, a view shared by the many Han officials and courtiers who produced the wedding of Qin penal law and the moral teachings of Confucius and his followers in official discourse and in court cases." As much as the implications of Legalism, Confucian ideals and wen were centered in the male dominated societies of Asia, yet women were also affected.

Cultural Narratives

The acts that made women come of age in China and in most of Asia had a sense of culture and civility too. This was a set of cultural norms that bonded women through the pain of having their feet bound to make what was considered beautiful feet for their courtiers. Bound feet are legendary for Asia within its history, but the fact that this cultural norm for women was their own remains. Most of the narrative comes from men, but women’s bound feet expose a culture unto themselves. “Chinese male writings about footbinding before the 19th century reveal the mechanisms of the male word-based textuality, on which rested the Confucian power of wen (civility; culture); second, that we may interpret the practice of footbinding as a female body-based textuality." Other encounters with Chinese words shows them in conjunction to form nuances of language. For instance, wenming means civilization. The prevalence within the teachings of Confucianism and the need for the understanding of its implications upon key concepts renders the word necessary to Chinese history.

WORKS CITED

1. Ko, D., Haboush, J. K., & Piggott, J. R. (Eds.). (2003). Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan. (D. Ko, J. K. Haboush, & J. R. Piggott, Eds.) (1st ed.). University of California Press. Pg. 116

2. “Reflections on Classifying ‘Confucian’ Lineages: Re¬inventions of Tradition in Song China,” in Benjamin Elman, John Duncan and Herman Ooms, eds., Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles, Asia Pacific Center Monograph Series in International Studies, 2002, pp 41.

3. Benjamin A. Elman, “Rethinking ‘Confucianism’ and ‘Neo-Confucianism in Modern Chinese History.” Rethinking Confucianism: Past, and Presentin China, Japan, Korea and Viet Nam.( Los Angeles: UCLA Asia Pacific Monograph Series, 2002)

4. Ko, Dorothy, JaHyun Kim Haboush, and Joan R. Piggott, eds., Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003)

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