Dong Zhongshu(董仲舒, B.C.E.170? ~ B.C.E.120?) has been evaluated to have a refined, indirect and academic style of demonstration writing in Han dynasty. In his most famous essay Tian Ren San Ce, He used series of chaning to explain phenomena of the society and principles of ruling the empire. The flow of ideas seemed to be very natural like river in the spring as one of the critic said. Dong Zhongshu tried to set up the theory of natural disaster[災異論], and the stages in detail were arranged in the system. He suggested many definitions of the concepts of Confucianism in order to persuade the emperor to take them into consideration on his policies. Through these rhetorical methods, his essay seemed academic and logical. He showed a lot of superfluousness in his essays, too. It was because he did not only answer to the emperor’s question, but he also tried to express his own ideas of controlling the world in the same essay. He used too many figures of speech, and it made his essays more complicated.

Dong Zhongshu(董仲舒, B.C.E.170? ~ B.C.E.120?) has been evaluated to have a refined, indirect and academic style of demonstration writing in Han dynasty. In his most famous essay Tian Ren San Ce, He used series of chaning to explain phenomena of the society and principles of ruling the empire. The flow of ideas seemed to be very natural like river in the spring as one of the critic said. Dong Zhongshu tried to set up the theory of natural disaster[災異論], and the stages in detail were arranged in the system. He suggested many definitions of the concepts of Confucianism in order to persuade the emperor to take them into consideration on his policies. Through these rhetorical methods, his essay seemed academic and logical. He showed a lot of superfluousness in his essays, too. It was because he did not only answer to the emperor’s question, but he also tried to express his own ideas of controlling the world in the same essay. He used too many figures of speech, and it made his essays more complicated.

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