The Autumn School

The wind and the rain,
Singing of schoolchildren,
Hushed voices in the parlor;
The family, the state, the world;
All of this is your concern.
-Gu Xiancheng

The Donglin movement was a political movement comprised mostly of students at the Donglin Academy (also known as the Autumn School). They were opposed to the widespread corruption and stagnation which had taken root in Chinese Society, and called for members to return to Confuscian principles of proper government and civic engagement.