The Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou is a comprehensive cultural venue built to commemorate Tang Xianzu, one of the world’s hundred great cultural figures and a master of Ming‑dynasty drama in China. It is also one of Jiangxi Province’s ten major memorial halls dedicated to historical luminaries.

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2024

The Diligence and Integrity Chapter of Linchuan Culture | “A Clear Breeze of the Ming Dynasty”: Tang Xianzu

Tang Xianzu was a towering literary figure of the late Ming dynasty in China. His thoughts on integrity and good governance were profoundly shaped by the Confucian culture he absorbed during his youth. The ideal of the “Confucian‑chivalric man” was the life goal to which Tang Xianzu aspired; the Confucian spirit of proactive striving, together with its emphasis on propriety, righteousness, integrity, and shame, endowed him with impartiality, uprightness, and strict self‑discipline. Meanwhile, the chivalric ethos rooted in “emotion” led him to govern with leniency and simplicity, placing people at the center of his administration—qualities that ultimately made him an exemplary official whose conduct could be held up before heaven, earth, and the spirits, and whose writings could bring peace and stability to the people and the state.

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