The unique cultural significance shaped the personality of the literary men in the late Ming Dynasty. Their favorite essays reflected their frame of mind to the letter. The essays of travel notes showed freshness in style and imagination; those of easy life displayed their simple and easy to content hearts, which was akin to the then ideology where most literary men tended to escape; while those of colorful and sensuous demonstrated the tendency that after the late Ming Dynasty, the literary men are expected to indulge themselves in physical pleasure, which appeared to be the opposite to the traditional morality, and this phenomenon itself had a lot to do with the fundamental inclination as to readiness to please. Anywaw whatever appearances they assumed, there is one point clear that all these literary men turned out to be men of losers with a discouraged heart.
