Confucian Order and Religious Doctrines: Rhetorical Characterizations of Illustrations in the Fiction “Quanxiang Pinghua” in the Yuan Dynasty

The fiction “Quanxiang Pinghua”, published by Jianyang 建陽 Yushi 虞氏 in the Yuan Dynasty, depicts public religious concepts using a set of organized illustrations etiquette. As popular cultural reading material fiction’s are mixture mainstream ideas, such as Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, reflecting people’s compromised identification three religions their value faith. shape view “the impermanence destiny”. With help spatial narrative political order Confucianism construction ritualistic landscapes these images reflect ethical enlightenment beliefs social life. From perspective this article adopted interdisciplinary methods to analyze inherent ethics explore among people Dynasty. This suggested that, depicting rituals, comprehensive acceptance benevolence righteousness, filial piety, loyalty, kindness Buddhism manifest Confucian moral ethics, which extension is interconnected with living manifesting inner interpretation literature art collective regulation folk beliefs.