Abstract: For the idealist school of philosophical thought in the Song and Ming dynasties,"Confucius and Hui s cheerfulness" is an issue of great significance,and the representatives of this school regarded the aspiration of YiYin and the scholarly attainments of YanYuan as their pursuit in morality.The cheerfulness that Confucius and YanYuan tried to acquire is a particular kind of experience on one s own spiritual level,which puts great emphasis on the ego s self-cultivation.The artistic conception of holy mind in ...