How To Make Confucian Songxue New?

We call Zhang Junmai's philosophy New Songxue. In this article we will distinguish the Songxue between Songxue and Song(Ming)xue. The former is a method of research , and the latter is a belief of position in the research of philosophy.The appearance of the former is for the current of thought that return to the ancients. And the appearance of the latter is for the current of westernization. It is the tradition of the Chinese Song(Ming)xue. In the analysis of the former, we will check the Songxue against the Hanxue, then between the textual research and the argumentation, we will find what is Zhang Junmai's New Songxue. For the latter we get in touch with the Western learning background of Zhang Junmai. Especially in Kent's philosophy and Life philosophy, we approach a subject from Chinese and the western angles. We will attempt to find the the actual state of Zhang Junmai's New Songxue. Then we can find, what aspect is new.From the explanation of the problems, we give a brief account of Zhang Junmai's New Songxue. For Zhang Junmai's New Songxue, on the one hand we know his theory took effective measures at that time for improvement the society, but on the other hand even the wise are not always free from error — One can't be too careful. There are some incorrect in his theory. He unwise used of the philosophy concept into Chinese Confucian. And he do not deepen his comprehension of Chinese Confucian, so he misunderstand the original Chinese Confucian. At last,...