Chapter 1361 - Traces of the World (Overhaul)

Ding Shanqing, the mountain chief, was busy when he was disturbed by Mai Ke's call. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

What are you busy with?

Of course, it's what he's always been busy with.

Because of the large number of protégés of Yuelu Academy, these protégés had a decisive influence both in the Manchu court and in the countryside.

They are also a banner of contemporary literati, of course, the size is different.

Therefore, as the head of the mountain, Ding Shanqing must insist on carrying this flag and let it fly high.

If it's a time of peace, this is not a big problem, anyway, everyone just stick to the old ways and follow the step-by-step line.

But nowadays, it's very difficult.

Why?

Because the literati cultivated by Yuelu Academy, if they succeed, it must be the success of Yuelu Academy, and all good things are counted on the head of Yuelu Academy.

What if it fails? Naturally, most of the responsibility lies with Yuelu Academy.

Now that even the emperor has been defeated in the Lianghe battlefield, Xianfeng himself was able to escape with his life by relying on the desperate cover of his stand-in, and he has failed too much politically, how can the reputation of Yuelu Academy be preserved?

However, everyone else can be disappointed and give up, but he, the mountain chief, can't!

Therefore, Ding Shanqing is working hard to save the crisis!

To help the building to fall and turn the tide in the past, it is necessary to redouble the effort!

Therefore, Ding Shanqing is extremely busy.

Fortunately, he is also in the prime of life, and he sleeps three or four hours a day, and it doesn't matter, he is still energetic every day!

Not only is he full of energy every day, but he also maintains a rather rich face.

After all, he is busy, but he doesn't worry about food and clothing!

Not to mention the financial allocation given by the imperial court, there are really few of his students who are not wealthy.

However, no matter how good these external conditions are, if he doesn't maintain a good attitude, it will make him skinny!

But he really did it with a wide heart and a fat body!

This is directly related to his academic literacy.

After the Song and Ming dynasties, Cheng Zhu ruled the academic world, and all the literati were science students.

The pursuit of science students, in a nutshell, is six words, called "preserving heavenly principles and destroying human desires".

This is also the essence of Cheng Zhu's science, a self-proclaimed science student, and a lifelong pursuit of a real science student.

Among them, the principle of heavenly reason is the principle of science, which is the source of the name of science.

And in front of the reason, add a heavenly character, which shows that this principle is the supreme truth, the ultimate reason, the unbreakable reason, and the truth that is always there, but few people can get and understand it.

In this way, the lifelong pursuit of Cheng Zhu's supporters of science is to discover and understand this heavenly principle.

As for the word cunning, it is a very complex verb.

The direct meaning, of course, is preservation, that is, something is there, it must be protected, it cannot be damaged, let alone lost, let alone abandoned.

However, before this, you have to find out what this heavenly principle is, and then you can move on to the next step, how to save it.

Cheng Zhu Lixue's greatest contribution is not only to determine the highest goal to be pursued by Tianli, but also to sort out a set of regular things, as the results of their research, as the framework and content of Cheng Zhu Lixue, and contribute to future generations.

These descendants, of course, are first and foremost their students, whether direct or indirect, including Ding Shanqing.

As for Cheng Zhu Lixue's "desire to destroy people", because it is related to the real world, it has been criticized by many later generations.

And the reason for this criticism is that most of them don't understand the meaning of their words.

It's like Xiucai encountering soldiers, and they can't be justified because they have no intention of reasoning with you at all.

The general truth can't be explained, let alone the heavenly principle?

Even if you want to be reasonable, not a few people can understand the profound thing of heavenly principles!

Do the founders of Cheng Zhu Lixue, Zhu Xi and Ercheng, really understand?

If they did, they wouldn't have tried to elaborate at length!

In fact, they didn't even reach Lao Tzu's level!

If they reach it, they will also send a letter to Guguan in the west, and they will be in the world.

This is also why the real masters of science in later generations still regard the search for heavenly principles as their primary task.

And those rigid literati are confined to some ready-made things of Cheng Zhu Lixue, and they do not know how to forge ahead.

Among the representatives of this style of writing, the most obvious special kind is to put all their energy on the last three words of these six characters -- to destroy people's desires.

In this way, if Cheng Zhu, the founder of his predecessors, can come out and speak, he will definitely be furious, shoot the case, and denounce them for not learning and not knowing!

Tell them what those six words meant originally!

Preserve heavenly principles and destroy human desires, saying that heavenly principles are heavenly principles, don't mix some of people's distracting thoughts dominated by desires!

The more human desires you mix, the less Heavenly Principle remains!

It's all human desire, and you have no heavenly reason!

Do you know what you're doing?

You are just waving the red flag and anti-red flag!

Verbally, he is shouting vigorously "save the principles of heaven and destroy people's desires", but in fact, what he is doing is "save people's desires and destroy heavenly principles"!

Because in terms of actual effect, you are full of human desires, where is the slightest heavenly reason!

Therefore, the common people directly complained to the sky, "There is no reason!"

You bastards, you have offended you from top to bottom!

As a top scholar, Ding Shanqing naturally knows this essence and has always advocated this essence, but the problem is that if you have the requirements of heavenly principles, you must stay away from some human desires, and this person's desires are all derived from human needs!

If there is no human desire, no matter what human needs, what is the use of preserving that heavenly principle!

Therefore, we must find a direct bridge between the two and connect the two, so that the principles of heaven must exist, and human desires cannot be completely extinguished!

Therefore, after years of research and discussion with Zeng Guofan, he established two academic policies, which served as the teaching motto of Yuelu Academy.

This is "learning from things" and "applying it to the world".

Among them, the knowledge of things is a principle of the existence of heavenly principles, that is, the principles and laws of things are exhausted and summarized as rational knowledge.

This rational knowledge is the Heavenly Principle.

The phrase "learning from things" comes from the "University".

Grid, to also.

Things, Judah also.

To, push the pole also,

Know, still know.

Knowledge of things is a very important philosophical concept in Confucianism.

Zhu Xi of the Northern Song Dynasty believed, "Those who know things in the study of things, they want to do their best, and they are exhausted in things." “

This is Zhu Zi's most general and accurate expression of "learning from things".

Push my knowledge, and want it to know everything.

Poor to the reason of things, want to be everywhere.

Of course, this is Zhu Xi's assumption, Tianli is not something that a person can know when he has a wish.

But as a principle, it is very important to explore the ultimate existence!

The most valuable thing is that Ding Shanqing took him as the directing principle of the academy and fully implemented it!

However, what really made him do his best was another principle.

Proven to work!

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