Learning Line Economy

At the end of Ming and beginning of the Ch'ing dynasties, the Confucianism scholar experienced the dual dilemma both a huge change of social life and Neo-confuciananism's decline, who learned to with reason, introspect deeply the society cured disorderly source and Confucianism's future development, and widespreadly thought that "academic not clear"is to result in the source of the social decline, and desired with the renew Confucianism as a good method to cure the perils, and or laid claim to anti-Wang Yangming's learning and emphasize Chu Hsi's learning,or laid claim to ilustrate way through Classics. Under this background, the current of the thought of the criticing the Neo-Confucianism and putting knowledge to practical use to society have raised. And in the early Ch'ing dynasty ,the culture and education policy under, Chu Tzu's Learning's official authority was established gradually, the study of Confucian Classics also was given award to. The Confucianism's development has taken place a turn. Hsi-chai's philosophy was born under the dual backgrounds.The Hsi-chai's philosophy had paid attention to the future development and to the realistic people's livelihood society. He awaked that the consistent way of ancient saint's "learning, teaching and governing" lies in rites through the illustration governning which was made by Master Meng. Thus knew that Sung Confucianists' speaking theory, learning and governing had deviated from the true way and the true learning of Duke of Zhou & Master Kong's and thought that was against the human nature, hence the learning annihilated and the way lost.Insisting in basic position inherited Master Kong's& Master Meng's theory of goodness of human nature,Hsi-chai absorbed the theory of natural human nature of Ming Dynasty, criticized Neo-Confucianist laid emphasis on earnestness and quience determinedly is empty and useless and endangers seriously,hence he further cricticed the resource of the theory. Hsi-chai criticed the Neo-Confucianists' theories of the relative of principle and material force, of human nature, of investigating things to extent knowledge,put forward theories of "principle and material foce is consistent", "physical nature is well" and the theory of investigating things with "learn and practice six arts" as main content etc. Then he certified standpoints of "way lies in six arts", "six arts always return rite", "way namely is rite". According to the principle which the way of ancient saint's "learning,teaching,governing" is consistent, Hsi-chai laid claim to take "learn and practice six arts" as basic contents of the learning and teaching, and renew Confucian enlightening by rite and music, actually to learn and actually to practice the writings of "six arts", actually to realize and actually to act the way of "six arts", labored man's body to develop his human nature; and then laid claim to take reviving ancient "governing by rites" and conducting people's livelihood and world as an aim to return. In the end, formed a nearly complete theories system which basised on "the theory of goodness of physical nature".The whole Hsi-chai's philosophy followed the inner logic made of by "criticing learning", "ilustrating the way" and "putting knowledge to practical use". Clearly,there is integrity in the tops of each theories link launch. Hsi-chai's philosophy pay attention to livelihood of peopple, inherited and developed the Confucian tradition and absorbed theories result of antecessors, and put forward the exclusive theory creatively, produced certainly influence.This text is exactly according to that time background, follows the inner logic of Hsi-chai's philosophy, from "criticing learning" to "ilustrating the way", and to "putting knowledge to practical use". Respectively and overall investigated each one part deep, such as "the theory about relative between principle and material force", "the theory about goodness of physical nature", "the theory about investigating things with a main content of learning and practicing six arts ",and "renew governing by rites".At the end of this text, we will emphatically analyze the value and the meaning to the modern age turn, which Hsi-chai's philosophy to revived the study of "learning and pacticing six arts" perhaps has.