Abstract
Southern Song scholar-officials, threatened by powerful external dynasties and committed to a restoration of the classical Way, inherited the predicaments and ambitions of their Northern Song predecessors. In many ways, they broke new ground, however, since some literati sought to strengthen the nation and its heritage through a Confucian militancy that pointedly disparaged Daoists and their works. Specifically, this article examines how prominent writers, such as Lou Yue, Wei Liaoweng, and Huang Zhen, used prefaces and abbey commemorations not to praise Daoist clergy and temples but to slight and condemn them. Such unprecedented displays of open hostility on Daoist turf reflect the radical self-fashioning and cultural purification undertaken by Southern Song Confucians.
Keywords
Neo-Confucianism, Daoism, heterodoxy, Southern Song, Wei Liaoweng, Huang Zhen, abbeys
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