A Study Of The Family Studies Of The Zhu Family In Baoying In The Qing Dynasty

It is praised commend that "more than twenty generations of descendants are all scholarly families,and for more than five-hundred years they are sincere truthful family".As the Ming and Qing dynasty jianghuai region of the prestigious family,Baoying Zhu's family,over the past more than 20 generations and more than 500 years,they have always passed down their descendants with poetry and calligraphy,which is a sincere family tradition.As a result,their cultural deposits are constantly developing and their poetry is flourishing.Almost every generation has written books and owned literary works.In the Ming and Qing dynasty,a total of 74 scholars came into being.They are shining like star and all their works are so numerous just like forests.There are 276 kinds of literary works and 111 kinds of extant ones nowadays.Their writings cover four subsets of Confucian classics,history,philosophy and belles-letters.To the Confucian classics,literary,history,philosophy,classic,epigraphy,Zhu zi's Philosophy,medicine,agronomy,hydraulics and etc.category,they also have been following the links,there are three kinds of knowledge:argumentation,textual research and rhetoric.Particularly especially famous in the world for its literary,Confucian classics,Zhu zi's Philosophy.And the birth of Zhu yingdeng,Zhu yuepan,Zhu kesheng,Zhu jing and other famous poetry and prose Zhu zeyun,Zhu bin,Zhu shiduan and other classics,neo-confucianism.It can be regarded as the model of academic families in the Ming and Qing dynasties and even the whole academic history of China.Most of the scholars and writings of Baoying Zhu's family are come into being in the Qing dynasty.Their extensive range,research depth and far-reaching influence are extremely rare in the academic history of the Qing dynasty.Baoying zhu family cultural,keeping up with the general trend of academic development,presents the development steps from literature to neo-confucianicm and then to pu-learning.as a result of the deep root in the rich cultural heritage of Yangzhou,fully absorb the academic essence of all the sages,especially the scholars of Confucianism of Yangzhou school,at the same time,it has been marked with the regional culture characteristic of the Song learning of Baoying academy,and has played a guiding role in the study of the academic development of the Qing dynasty.On the one hand,the Zhu's family culture has drawn outside extensive nourishment form other scholars and schools,such as Wu-School and Wan-School,by choosing and following what are right widely.The family culture has been Pu-Learning oriented and contained the advantages of Song-Learning by paying much attention to moral principle,textual criticism,and poetry and prose without sectarianism and authority fear.On the other hand,the culture has been inherited orderly inside the family by insisting on frugality and prudence in self-cultivation and practical philosophy in thought.The marriages between Zhu's family and other academic families in places like Baoying County and Yangzhou City have become an approach to learning from and encouraging each other,which can constantly inject fresh energy to the inheritance of all family cultures.The combination of internal and external factors has provided guarantees for the continuous academic growth of the Zhu's family culture.On the aspect of Neo-Confucianism,it has been traditional for the Zhu's family to study Neo-Confucianism from the Ming Dynasty.In the early Qing Dynasty,Zhu Zeyun strongly advocated Cheng-Zhu's thought,but excluded and rejected Lu-Wang's.And the fact that Zhu Zeyun meticulously studied the Zhuxi's Neo-Confucianism by textual researching with his close friend Wang Maohong has been appreciated by scholars of the day and later generations.His achievement in studying Zhuxi's Neo-Confucianism has become an important part in the history of Neo-Confucianism in the Qing Dynasty.Besides,his academic system has been followed by scholars in Baoying,such as Liu Taigong and Cheng Ru and also become the significant academic sources of the Yangzhou School's Coordination that combined the advantages of Han-Learning and Song-Learning.In addition,his textual researching method has been carried forward by his clansmen like Zhu Bin and Zhu Shiduan.His creative contribution has been thought highly of all the time.On the aspect of Pu-learning,Zhu bin,Zhu shiduan,as the mainstream school in the Qing dynasty,also been called as scholars of Yangzhou school,in the field of rites,Shuowen and epigraphy have made great contribution.Zhu bin's compliation of ritual study is an indispensable one for the Qing dynasty's new suisanjing?It reflects the academic characteristics of Yangzhou school,which is based on sinology and adopts song learning,with broad vision and strong learning of goodness.It occupies an important position in the history of Chinese rites.Zhu shiduan,classic as his foundation,and combined with the study of epigraphy,and his knowledge has became more and more refined.Besides,his book of Shuowen proofs,Strong sense,for the correction of Duan yucca's Shuo wen jiezi annotation are on more solid footing to explain,and in the field of Shuowen study occupy an important position.As for literature,Baoying Zhu's Family firstly shined in the world as a literature family,which is famous in JiangHuai region.For example,Zhu Yingdeng is ranked amongst The Top Ten Talents,along with Li Mengyang,He Jingming.Zhu Yingdeng's son named Zhu Yuefan Initiated the six dynasties school of jinling with He Liangjun,Huang Jishui and other literateurs,and also lead the trend of the moment.Baoying Zhu's Family didn't slack off in their studies in literature until Qing Dynasty.Not only is the number of Zhu Family who are involved in this great,but the amount of their works which refer to different kinds of literary forms,such as poems,articles and literature criticism and so on,is also large.Their works,like the poetry of Zhu Kesheng and Zhu Shirui,the ancient Chinese prose of Zhu Bin and Zhu Shirui,the poem theory of Zhu Zongda and Zhu Bin,and the collection of their family history written by Zhu Bin,Zhu Shirui,all have their own features and are highly praised.Besides,the members of Baoying Zhu Family have great achievement in historiography and philology.For example,Zhu Kejian,the political commentary and historical comments of Zhu Kejian and Zhu Zeyun,Zhu Kesheng,and Zhu Shida all take part in writing local records.Genealogy and biographies written by Zhu Kesheng,Zhu Lu and Zhu Baisui are all useful articles for people of the world,which are either about politics of their time or historical materials.In short,In the Qing dynasty,Baoying zhu's scholars were numerous and their writings were abundant as well.They made outstanding achievements in the fields of neo-confucianism,plain learning and literature.They also made important contributions to the compilation of local documents and family documents,such as local Chronicles,genealogy,and lineages.They are worthy of the title of jianghuai literature giant.The inheritance of family learning from literature,neo-confucianism and pu-learning coinciding with the academic trend of the Ming and Qing dynastiesis a typical example of an academic family in Ming and Qing dynasties.The academic character and academic pursuit of practice,fulfillment,honesty,uprightness and matter of facts are also worthy of emulation by later generations.